Re: Svn crash, related to --username?

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:18 PM, B V <docrat50_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Newest svn crashes, apparently from using the --username command line
> option.
>
> We use MSBuild community tasks in our automated build. It attempts to issue
> subversion commands, and these commands work with older svn version 1.6.17,
> but fail with current versions. The commands are of the form:
>
> svn.exe update "<server location>" "<local directory>" --username <name>
> --password <pass> --non-interactive --no-auth-cache
>
> My attempts to investigate seem to show that the only part of that that is
> causing a crash individually is --username (possibly --password , too, I
> did not try with only the password option)
>
> This happens with Sliksvn and collabnet svn.

This is a known issue, a new bug introduced in 1.7.7. See this post:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2012-10/0099.shtml

A fix has already been made, and will be released in 1.7.8. In the
meantime you should probably roll back to 1.7.6 if this issue impacts
you.

-- 
Johan