On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 16:54, Hahn, Christopher (SAN DIEGO) <christopher.h...@hp.com> wrote: > > > I also saw this....I was wondering what users do to get something similar > working. > > The same thing happens under Perforce. The command “p4” always returns a > successful exit code. The way around that is the odd “-s” switch which > causes the > tool to emit a string like “exit: #” where the underlying commands success or > failure > was specified. Is there perhaps some similar technique for SVN? > > I checked the svn Global Options and did not see anything similar. > > I suppose that I can just use a pipe and watch for strings that I expect.....
I think most people doing a lot of SVN work within Perl are using the Perl bindings, or SVN module off CPAN. > > From: Varnau, Steve (Neoview) > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 1:33 PM > To: Hahn, Christopher (SAN DIEGO); users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: RE: SVN question > > > > Christopher, > > > > The problem is not with your perl code. Apparently, update returns success if > you give it a path that does not exist in the current working directory. > > > > Ø svn update foobar > > At revision 3158. > > Ø echo $? > > 0 > > > > For Svn 1.6.15, anyway. Seems to hold for linux & windows. > > > > -Steve > > > > From: Hahn, Christopher (SAN DIEGO) > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 11:34 AM > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: SVN question > > > > Hello, > > > > I have been wondering how best to capture errors from > > the SVN command line. > > > > I wanted to show you how a basic test is failing. > > > > Consider the simple code snippet: > > ========================================== > > use strict; > > my $options=" --username builduser --password XXXX"; > > > > chdir("C:\\source"); > > my $output = `svn update --depth=infinity mang $options`; > > > > die "svn failed with errorcode $?" if $?; > > print "We survived!\n"; > > ========================================== > > > > This command works if the “mang” above is changed to “main” > > (which does exist at c:\source). > > > > However, both code have this result: > > ========================================== > > C:\source\cm\script>perl svntest.pl > > We survived! > > > > C:\source\cm\script>perl svntest.pl > > We survived! > > ========================================== > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > Chris > > > > ________________________________ > > Christopher Hahn > The Dude > > Software Production Engineering > R&D Services, Hewlett-Packard > Phone: 858-655-4096 > Cell: 619-630-9791 > ch...@hp.com > > > > Visit our SPE Portal > > ________________________________ > > > >