SourceTree hangs when pushing to svn repo

Jeremy Conlin

I've been using SourceTree for a couple of weeks. Previously I used svn and SourceTree has been my bridge between the new (and wonderful?) world of git and the old world of svn.

Everything was working fine, except now when I push my git changes to the svn repository it hangs when synchronising. (See attached screen shot.) The only thing I've done is upgrade from OS X 10.6 to 10.7; my svn repo is on a remote disk. Is there a log file somewhere I can look at to see why it hangs? Can anyone help me figure out how to make this work?

Thanks,

Jeremy

stevestreeting

This isn't a hang as such, simply SourceTree waiting for the command to continue - therefore the only log is really what you're already looking at.

The most common cause of this issue is authentication; occasionally svn doesn't flush the user/password prompts in a non-terminal meaning that SourceTree ends up waiting forever. One thing that seems to stop this happening is to include your username in your SVN URL, e.g. https://username@host.com/path/to/svn/repo . Another way is to drop to the command line briefly and execute 'svn info SVN_URL', to make svn cache your authentication and therefore avoid the issue. So far I haven't found a way to avoid this problem in all cases except to modify the svn executable, but luckily it doesn't happen that often and these workarounds tend to resolve it.