Question

Normally when I commit things to our repository, I do
svn ci file1 file2 file3 etc -m “this is a message about the changes I’m committing.”

I’m currently working on a different computer (which happens to be running Fedora instead of my usual Ubuntu), and when I do this, it balks, saying

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: '/home/[path]/[word]' is not under version control

where [word] is the second word of my commit message.
(e.g., in the above example (“this is a message…”), “is”).

I don’t suppose SVN works differently in Fedora?
What could be causing this problem, and what do I need to do to use the -m flag here?

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem. If I try to commit directly at the terminal, then -m works fine. But if I try to commit using a script then it would only take the first word from the comment string. Even using the --non-interactive option did not help.

Finally as a work around, in the script I am creating a temporary file with the comment string in it and then using --file option to supply the comment for the commit command.

echo ${COMMENT[$i]} > .tempistan
if [ -n "${FILES_TO_COMMIT[$i]}" ]; then
    svn_cmd="/usr/bin/svn --non-interactive commit --file .tempistan ${FILES_TO_COMMIT[$i]}"
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