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RE: SVN question

From: Varnau, Steve (Neoview) <steve.varnau_at_hp.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 22:22:36 +0000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name]
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 2:37 PM
> To: Varnau, Steve (Neoview)
> Cc: Hahn, Christopher (SAN DIEGO); users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: SVN question
>
> 'svn up nonexistent' will pull in a file (inappropriately) called
> 'nonexistent' that has been created on the server in a revision newer
> than the BASE revision of the working copy.

Quite true, but update does not complain whether or not it finds such a file. That seems a bit surprising.

It also does not give an error if the current directory is not a working copy, and it can't figure out where to update from:

> svn update foobar
Skipped 'foobar'

Okay, at least it gives a message, but not returning error, seems... surprising.

-Steve

>
> Varnau, Steve (Neoview) wrote on Mon, May 23, 2011 at 21:30:26 +0000:
> > svn does not always return success. For instance:
> >
> > > svn ls
> > svn: '.' is not a working copy
> > > echo $?
> > 1
> >
> > I think this is the more normal mode that I script against. I'm not
> sure why the update sub-command is so forgiving.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
> > From: Hahn, Christopher (SAN DIEGO)
> > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 1:54 PM
> > To: Varnau, Steve (Neoview); users_at_subversion.apache.org
> > Subject: RE: SVN question
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> > Thank you for taking the time.
> >
> > I also saw this....I was wondering what users do to get something
> similar working.
> >
> > The same thing happens under Perforce. The command "p4" always
> returns a
> > successful exit code. The way around that is the odd "-s" switch
> which causes the
> > tool to emit a string like "exit: #" where the underlying commands
> success or failure
> > was specified. Is there perhaps some similar technique for SVN?
> >
> > I checked the svn Global Options and did not see anything similar.
> >
> > I suppose that I can just use a pipe and watch for strings that I
> expect.....
> >
> > Take care,
> >
> > Christopher
> >
> > From: Varnau, Steve (Neoview)
> > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 1:33 PM
> > To: Hahn, Christopher (SAN DIEGO); users_at_subversion.apache.org
> > Subject: RE: SVN question
> >
> > Christopher,
> >
> > The problem is not with your perl code. Apparently, update returns
> success if you give it a path that does not exist in the current working
> directory.
> >
> >
> > Ø svn update foobar
> >
> > At revision 3158.
> >
> > Ø echo $?
> >
> > 0
> >
> > For Svn 1.6.15, anyway. Seems to hold for linux & windows.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
> > From: Hahn, Christopher (SAN DIEGO)
> > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 11:34 AM
> > To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> > Subject: SVN question
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been wondering how best to capture errors from
> > the SVN command line.
> >
> > I wanted to show you how a basic test is failing.
> >
> > Consider the simple code snippet:
> > ==========================================
> > use strict;
> > my $options=" --username builduser --password XXXX";
> >
> > chdir("C:\\source");
> > my $output = `svn update --depth=infinity mang $options`;
> >
> > die "svn failed with errorcode $?" if $?;
> > print "We survived!\n";
> > ==========================================
> >
> > This command works if the "mang" above is changed to "main"
> > (which does exist at c:\source).
> >
> > However, both code have this result:
> > ==========================================
> > C:\source\cm\script>perl svntest.pl
> > We survived!
> >
> > C:\source\cm\script>perl svntest.pl
> > We survived!
> > ==========================================
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Chris
> >
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> >
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