svn post-commit: updating a working copy fails

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I have a post-commit hook that should update a working copy like this

/usr/bin/svn update /home/xxxx/htdocs/devel

That unfortunately fails. (subversion should run as www-data, as I'm using apache with it.) Trying this:

su www-data
env - /xxxx/hooks/post-commit /xxxx/$REPO $REV

results in:

Authentication realm: <svn://xxxx:3690> weird-looking-code
Password for 'www-data':

I then tried to type in some accounts/passwords, but neither the system accounts (root, ...) nor the accounts in the apache user file that protects the svn repository are working.

I even tried to 

chown -R www-data:www-data /home/xxxx/htdocs/devel

but that doesn't work either.

Any suggestions?

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svnpost-commit
what does svn info /home/xxxx/htdocs/devel return? – Lance Rushing
Path: devel URL: svn://xxxx/trunk Repository Root: svn://xxxx Repository UUID: weird code Revision: 140 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: xxxx Last Changed Rev: 140 Last Changed Date: 2009-10-20 17:27:06 +0200 (Tue, 20 Oct 2009) – janoliver

1 Answers

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You should find out which user is allowed to execute the command /usr/bin/svn update /home/xxxx/htdocs/devel by executing it manually. After that you can use the line:

/usr/bin/svn update --username <xxx> /home/xxxx/htdocs/devel

...in your post-commit hook.