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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Kevin Pilch-Bisson <ke...@pilch-bisson.net> on 2002/12/10 17:37:51 UTC

Re: error: svn_io_file_open

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:24:16PM -0800, Daniel Rall wrote:
> rblanpro@juno.com writes:
> 
> > 3. Attempting to import a file set like: "svn import file:///home/roger 
> > /home/svnroot" returns this error "svn None of the environment variables
> > SVN_EDITOR,  VISUAL, or EDITOR is set." 
> 
> Does svn attempt to look in the usual places (/usr/bin and /bin) for
> vi?  I'm an Emacs man myself, but vi is almost always available on
> unixy systems.  Spawning some editor by default (if one can be found)
> seems like more reasonable behavior.
> -- 
We explicitly decided to do this, since then the user doesn't get stuck in an
editor they may not know, and accidentally commit their changes.
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Kevin Pilch-Bisson                    http://www.pilch-bisson.net
     "Historically speaking, the presences of wheels in Unix
     has never precluded their reinvention." - Larry Wall
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Re: error: svn_io_file_open

Posted by Nuutti Kotivuori <na...@iki.fi>.
Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote:
> We explicitly decided to do this, since then the user doesn't get
> stuck in an editor they may not know, and accidentally commit their
> changes.

Oh gods, does that mean I won't be hearing in the office anymore:

  "Hey Nuutti, how did one get out of this friggin' beeper thingy?"

:-)

-- Naked

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Re: error: svn_io_file_open

Posted by Daniel Rall <dl...@finemaltcoding.com>.
Kevin Pilch-Bisson <ke...@pilch-bisson.net> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:24:16PM -0800, Daniel Rall wrote:
> > rblanpro@juno.com writes:
> > 
> > > 3. Attempting to import a file set like: "svn import file:///home/roger 
> > > /home/svnroot" returns this error "svn None of the environment variables
> > > SVN_EDITOR,  VISUAL, or EDITOR is set." 
> > 
> > Does svn attempt to look in the usual places (/usr/bin and /bin) for
> > vi?  I'm an Emacs man myself, but vi is almost always available on
> > unixy systems.  Spawning some editor by default (if one can be found)
> > seems like more reasonable behavior.
> > -- 
> We explicitly decided to do this, since then the user doesn't get stuck in an
> editor they may not know, and accidentally commit their changes.

Okay, thanks for the explanation.  We needn't revisit this discussion.
-- 

Daniel Rall <dl...@finemaltcoding.com>

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