SVN revprop failure

[Jamon Camisso]

On 12/6/2010 5:29 PM, Antranig Basman wrote:
> A failure which might be an area related to the one I just posted about
> is this failure I just got when trying to revise some revision
> properties in the repository -
>
> " svn: DAV request failed; it's possible that the repository's
> pre-revprop-change hook either failed or is non-existent
> svn: Error setting property log:
> Repository has not been enabled to accept revision propchanges;
> ask the administrator to create a pre-revprop-change hook
> svn: DAV request failed; it's possible that the repository's
> pre-revprop-change hook either failed or is non-existent
> svn: Error setting property log:
> Repository has not been enabled to accept revision propchanges;
> ask the administrator to create a pre-revprop-change hook"
>
> The command I issued was
>
> propset --revprop -r 10335--force "svn:log" "message"

Hi Antranig,

That error is by design. SVN requires that a pre-revprop-change hook 
exist in order to allow changes to past revisions, since those 
properties of a commit are not versioned within SVN.

If you would like me to setup a script, I'm happy to work with you on 
one, but until such a script exists the command above will always fail.

On a related note (to your previous email), I have encountered the same 
problem with long delays. Specifically, I discovered the slowdown when 
testing the post-commit script last week. I wonder if that had something 
to do with the post-commit emails not being sent as well.

In any case, Colin, Jess and myself are working on getting ready to 
migrate mail and SVN onto the main virtual machine for Fluid's 
infrastructure. I am hoping that moving both mail and SVN there resolves 
the issue.

Cheers, Jamon