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TERM environment variable not set on mac

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Add this to your profile:

export TERM=xterm-color

Jonathan Leffler 2010-10-12 03:57:15

Hi mate, I did put that in both profile items (already was present in one of them) and it still gives me that error.

Doron Katz 2010-10-12 20:35:17

i also did echo $TERM and it shows the result i added (you mentioned above)

Doron Katz 2010-10-12 20:36:19

@Doron: By the time the SVN commands are run, your TERM value has been unset. Time to review all the commands (with grep, probably) that you use and see if any of them do `unset TERM` or any equivalent. Because the SVN commands would not say "TERM not set" if it was set. You might need to scan 'dot files' in your home directory too. Or any cover scripts you have. You might need to look for 'env -i' as another possibility. But something is killing your env var.

Jonathan Leffler 2010-10-12 20:54:35

Thanks that might be it mate. Ill have to scan and see how i go. Thanks

Doron Katz 2010-10-12 21:24:55

@Doron: one thing to check - when you get the error, sometime, `echo $TERM`. That will tell you whether your environment got clobbered before you tried running SVN (because the echo didn't show a value for $TERM) or that something you invoke while running the SVN command clobbers it because TERM is set immediately before, and after, you get the failure message from SVN.

Jonathan Leffler 2010-10-12 21:28:54

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