CC.NET & SVN: Cannot 'GetModifications' - source control failure

0
votes

I'm preparing our new CC.NET server. After the migration of the ccnet.config from our old build server, we experience an error when building one of our projects. All defined projects with a single source-control element work well. But one project that relies upon multi-source-control won't build. An extract of our configuration:

<sourcecontrol type="multi" >
  <sourceControls>
    <svn autoGetSource="false">
      <trunkUrl>http://sourceserver/svn/projecXYZ/dev/client</trunkUrl>
      <workingDirectory>C:\dev\projecXYZ\dev\client</workingDirectory>
      <cleanCopy>false</cleanCopy>
      <timeout units="hours">1</timeout>
    </svn>
    <svn autoGetSource="false">
      <trunkUrl>http://sourceserver/svn/projecXYZ/dev/server/include</trunkUrl>
      <workingDirectory>C:\dev\projecXYZ\dev\server\include</workingDirectory>
      <cleanCopy>false</cleanCopy>
      <timeout units="hours">1</timeout>
    </svn>
  </sourceControls>
</sourcecontrol>

This leads to the following error:

Source control failure (GetModifications): Value cannot be null. Parameter name: s
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2 Answers

1
votes

Are you having the problem in CruiseControl.NET 1.8.4? We encountered it when trying to upgrade from CruiseControl.NET 1.8.3 to CruiseControl.NET 1.8.4, on the MultiSourceControl for svn. Regular SVN is OK.

Looks like this issue was fixed in a patch from 5 months ago on 09/12/2013. However 1.8.4 was put together on 09/01/2013. It should be fixed in the next release of CruiseControl.NET 1.8.5:

0
votes

I think the "tags" for svn task have changed.

http://build.sharpdevelop.net/ccnet/doc/CCNET/Subversion%20Source%20Control%20Block.html

<sourcecontrol type="svn">
  <trunkUrl>svn://svn.mycompany.com/myfirstproject/trunk</trunkUrl>
  <workingDirectory>c:\dev\ccnet</workingDirectory>
</sourcecontrol>

I would try to put 2 simple file-copies inside your multi blocks, then move over to svn.

<filesystem>
  <!-- Check for changes in the latest 1.2 version of the server... -->
  <repositoryRoot>\\DistributionFileServer\Server\1.2.latest</repositoryRoot>
</filesystem>