Post-commit hook fails in Visual SVN Server

Question

I have added a post-commit hook to my Visual SVN Server that updates my web root folder. I have the following in the commit-hook:

"%VISUALSVN_SERVER%bin\svn.exe" update "D:\wamp\www\xix" --username xone --password xxx

Running this from within the command-line works, but when I commit changes in my project from the client program, I get always the error:

Error: post-commit hook failed (exit code 1) with output: svn: E720005: Error resolving case of 'D:\wamp\www\xix'

Why is this? Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Several things:

• The post-commit hook has no access to your client's workspace.
• When you run the command from the command line, you're a different user than the user the server running the command. The error number E720005 usually points to a user who doesn't have permission to update a file inside their working directory. That user may have permission to read from the repository, but not necessarily to write to the working directory.
• Many environment variables are purposefully munged when the hook is executed. It could be that your environment variables like %VISUALSVN_SERVER% are not what you think they are.