svn propedit gives me a blank file

Question

I know that the svn:ignore property is populated in my working copy, but when I do

svn propedit svn:ignore . --editor-cmd notepad

I get a blank file; editing and saving the blank file has no effect on the property. Using other editors gives a similar result.

Why isn’t this working?

I am using a 1.4.2 server and a 1.6.6 client on Windows XP.

Update

I have tried Notepad, UltraEdit-32, and Sublime Text, with and without the start /wait command, and not gotten anything to work. I have gotten it to work on a Debian machine, just not on Windows XP. Can anyone provide an example of a command that has the desired result, or a setting that I need to change in Windows?

Answer 1

You must use an editor which doesn't fork itself (i.e. starts an instance in the background and then returns immediately). For Windows, I'm not sure which editor doesn't work.

To try, start the editor from the command line. If you get a new prompt before you close the editor window, it won't work.