RE: Re: Invalid change kind in rev file

Quinn Taylor wrote:
>
>> > I traced this down to the new format of the changes file which
>> > now includes node-kinds (e.g. modify-file) which the old svnlook
>> > cannot parse.
>> >
>> > Is this an unsupported configuration or do we need to check a
>> > version number whether or not to write node-kinds to that file?
>
>> If this is true, it sounds like a bug. The Subversion promise is that
>> any 1.x client will work with any 1.x server, and it sounds like
>> you've found a case where this is not true.
>
> Has anyone figured out the cause of this, or happen to know which versions
> of SVN are affected? We've run into this while trying to upgrade our work
> servers from 1.4.4 to 1.6.6, and it causes our pre-commit hooks to fail in
> our test environment. I'm really pushing for the auto merge-tracking
> features in 1.5+ and want to use the most recent version possible, but
> this is a troubling problem. Is there an SVN bug filed for this, and
> hopefully a workaround or patch for the time being?
>

I just ran in the issue myself. It deals with the assumption of the path
being set appropriately in the hooks. The previous manual install of
Subversion (1.5.x) that I was running was installed in /usr/local, the new
install (1.6.x) was from an RPM and installed to /opt/CollabNet_Subversion.
Even with using the CollabNet_Subversion Apache2 server, the PATH does not
automatically include /opt/CollabNet_Subversion/bin. So 'svnlook' looks in
the default path, which includes /usr/local/bin.

I changed my scripts to insert /opt/CollabNet_Subversion/bin at the
beginning of the path and they are now working appropriately.

This would probably be a problem with just about any system that went with
an manual install to an RPM/DEB install. The manual installs (using
configure) typically install to /usr/local, which would get picked up by
default, and the automated installs would install to an application specific
directory, which would need to be added to the path.

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