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Could it be that the EDITOR (or SVN_EDITOR, etc.) environment variable is set to svn-commit.tmp? (This environment variable specifies which editor you want to use to edit the commit message.)

Though on Linux, at least, you would get a more meaningful error message:

sh: svn-commit.tmp: not found
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: system('svn-commit.tmp svn-commit.tmp') returned 32512

Perhaps you are on Windows, this is the problem, and the error message is terse?

Richard Fearn 2010-09-02 20:56:43

I don't think that the environment variable is off. I have my ~/.bash_profile setup as follows:export SVN_EDITOR=svnI am running on MacOSXThanks for the great question and your help!

syn4k 2010-09-02 22:34:39

I ran sudo updatedb which is a symlink I created to update the local locate database. Then I ran locate svn-commit.tmp. This yielded 0 results. So, basically, there is no such file on my system

syn4k 2010-09-02 22:36:22

I don't think `svn-commit.tmp` exists - I thought that svn was trying to run that as though it were an editor. `SVN_EDITOR` needs to be be a text editor, not `svn` itself.

Richard Fearn 2010-09-03 07:43:17

Great idea Richard,I ran export SVN_EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim. My mistake for not doing this earlier. I am still getting an error when committing though: Unknown command: 'svn-commit.tmp' returned 256

syn4k 2010-09-03 15:23:47

I filed a bug report over at tigris: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3703

syn4k 2010-09-03 15:53:30

Interestingly, svn ci somefile anotherfile andanother -m "my comment" does not cause the error but this is a horrible way to comment multiple files.

syn4k 2010-09-03 15:59:22

Using `-m` won't cause the error as in that case you're specifying a commit message on the command line - i.e. `svn` doesn't need to run a text editor.

Richard Fearn 2010-09-03 16:02:22

Richard, yes, you are correct and doing this also prevents the issue from occurring. Seems to me that this is warrant enough for the Tigris developers to look into it but I guess they feel otherwise since my bug was marked as invalid in their issue tracker: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3703

syn4k 2010-09-14 23:51:43

@syn4k the best place to take issues like this is the svn users mailing list which can help debug it. If there's an issue with svn itself and not your environment, which would be determined there, then we can fix it in svn. We just don't like to use the issue tracker as a place to get help, otherwise we would be inundated with tickets.

Blair Zajac 2010-09-15 01:09:29

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