svnant - parent dir in server is not a working copy.

Question

I want to checkout project, get the revision number, build jar with that number in menifest, on the server with a web interface. There are some other minor steps in the whole process, but that's the main goal. everything in the build script is working fine locally, but I always get stuck when it is done on the server. when I try to use svnant task on the project I checked out, it's telling me the parent dir is not a working copy, so I tried a copy first, then the whole project again into that copy, it's still telling me that the parent dir (the first edition) is not a working copy.

what sould I do?

p.s. I have tried all possible combination of , , , . none of them worked. can anyone else get the in svnant work? I always get error as following:

java.lang.NullPointerException at org.tigris.subversion.svnant.commands.WcVersion.getWorkingCopySumary(Unknown Source) at org.tigris.subversion.svnant.commands.WcVersion.execute(Unknown Source) at org.tigris.subversion.svnant.commands.SvnCommand.executeCommand(Unknown Source) at org.tigris.subversion.svnant.SvnTask.execute(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106) ..........

can anyone help with either question?

Thank you

Answer 1

Please, check that you have the same version of SVN installed on server and on client (svn --version).

Also, I would like to recall you that svnant is binding to SVN 1.5 and if on server side you have 1.6 version, you can get similar behavior.

How to resolve the issue: switch your script from javahl to svnkit. I.e. add svnkit jars to your classpath and add to all svnant related commands appropriate hint:

javahl="false" svnkit="true"