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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Greg Goodrich <gg...@medinotes.com> on 2004/05/16 17:06:28 UTC
Error during checkout - svn: Date parsing failed
I've been trying to convert from VSS to Subversion, and I've followed
the advice given on this mailing list for doing a "svn propset svn:date
--revprop" command to preserve the dates of my VSS modifications.
However, now that it appears that I'm getting the appropriate dates
submitted via this command, I now get errors when trying to do a
checkout. The errors are as follows:
$ svn checkout http://pegasus/svn/dev3/trunk/Charting
A Charting/MediTools
svn: In directory 'Charting/MediTools'
svn: Error processing command 'modify-entry' in 'Charting/MediTools'
svn: Date parsing failed
$
$ svn log http://pegasus/svn/dev3/trunk/Charting
svn: Date parsing failed
$
$ svn propget svn:date --revprop -rHEAD http://pegasus/svn/dev3/
'1998-05-22T07:45:00.000000Z'
$ svn propget svn:date --revprop -r1 http://pegasus/svn/dev3/
'1997-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z'
$ svn propget svn:date --revprop -r2 http://pegasus/svn/dev3/
'2004-05-16T07:31:29.918917Z'
Hmm, as I run these test commands to put more info on this email, I
noticed that last command returned a current date rather than a
historical one. Maybe that is the problem here. I'll post this anyhow,
just in case, and then post a follow-up if after fixing this issue it
still fails.
TIA
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Re: Error during checkout - svn: Date parsing failed
Posted by Greg Goodrich <gg...@medinotes.com>.
Well, I'm not directly using a shell, and thus am not certain which
shell is being used. I'm using a perl script that someone else wrote,
and it is issuing the svn command through a perl mechanism. This is
happening on a windows machine, and the perl script itself is being run
via bash, but I don't know what perl itself on a windows box will exec
when running a shell command. Quite likely it is running cmd.exe. If I
find out more, I will post the info.
Benjamin Pflugmann wrote:
>On Mon 2004-05-17 at 11:43:08 -0500, you wrote
>
>
>>Okay, I figured out my problem. I was using the examples of svn propset
>>from the online book, which all seem to have the property value enclosed
>>in single quotes. You do NOT want this when setting svn:date! It keeps
>>the quotes as part of the property value, and thus causes the Date
>>parsing failed message to occur.
>>
>>
>
>Just a minor clarification for other readers: quite probably this has
>nothing to do with svn:date being special, but with the shell Greg
>used (MS-DOS box?).
>
>So you should read this as "you do not want this when setting
>properties under Windows with the same shell as Greg used". The
>examples work fine with bash and tcsh (under Linux) and should work
>with any reasonable UNIX-style shell (Cygwin under Windows should be
>fine, too). Usually svn doesn't see the single quotes at all, because
>the shell already handled and removed them. Apparently Windows works
>different here.
>
>As the book says at the start, the examples are written with a UNIX
>shell in mind.
>
>Bye,
>
> Benjamin.
>
>
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Re: Error during checkout - svn: Date parsing failed
Posted by Benjamin Pflugmann <be...@pflugmann.de>.
On Mon 2004-05-17 at 11:43:08 -0500, you wrote
> Okay, I figured out my problem. I was using the examples of svn propset
> from the online book, which all seem to have the property value enclosed
> in single quotes. You do NOT want this when setting svn:date! It keeps
> the quotes as part of the property value, and thus causes the Date
> parsing failed message to occur.
Just a minor clarification for other readers: quite probably this has
nothing to do with svn:date being special, but with the shell Greg
used (MS-DOS box?).
So you should read this as "you do not want this when setting
properties under Windows with the same shell as Greg used". The
examples work fine with bash and tcsh (under Linux) and should work
with any reasonable UNIX-style shell (Cygwin under Windows should be
fine, too). Usually svn doesn't see the single quotes at all, because
the shell already handled and removed them. Apparently Windows works
different here.
As the book says at the start, the examples are written with a UNIX
shell in mind.
Bye,
Benjamin.
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Re: Error during checkout - svn: Date parsing failed
Posted by Greg Goodrich <gg...@medinotes.com>.
Okay, I figured out my problem. I was using the examples of svn propset
from the online book, which all seem to have the property value enclosed
in single quotes. You do NOT want this when setting svn:date! It keeps
the quotes as part of the property value, and thus causes the Date
parsing failed message to occur.
Greg Goodrich wrote:
> I've been trying to convert from VSS to Subversion, and I've followed
> the advice given on this mailing list for doing a "svn propset
> svn:date --revprop" command to preserve the dates of my VSS
> modifications. However, now that it appears that I'm getting the
> appropriate dates submitted via this command, I now get errors when
> trying to do a checkout. The errors are as follows:
>
> $ svn checkout http://pegasus/svn/dev3/trunk/Charting
> A Charting/MediTools
> svn: In directory 'Charting/MediTools'
> svn: Error processing command 'modify-entry' in 'Charting/MediTools'
> svn: Date parsing failed
> $
> $ svn log http://pegasus/svn/dev3/trunk/Charting
> svn: Date parsing failed
> $
> $ svn propget svn:date --revprop -rHEAD http://pegasus/svn/dev3/
> '1998-05-22T07:45:00.000000Z'
> $ svn propget svn:date --revprop -r1 http://pegasus/svn/dev3/
> '1997-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z'
> $ svn propget svn:date --revprop -r2 http://pegasus/svn/dev3/
> '2004-05-16T07:31:29.918917Z'
>
> Hmm, as I run these test commands to put more info on this email, I
> noticed that last command returned a current date rather than a
> historical one. Maybe that is the problem here. I'll post this
> anyhow, just in case, and then post a follow-up if after fixing this
> issue it still fails.
>
> TIA
>
>
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