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 · Accepted solution]

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.

[Jeremy Conlin]

My svn repository is on a network drive that I access with file:///… with subversion; I don't use http(s).

I tried doing svn info file:///path/to/svn/repo to cache my authentication. I am able to see the information about the repository, but SourceTree still has the same issue.

[stevestreeting]

Oh, that's very odd then. What happens if you try 'git svn dcommit' on the command line?

[Jeremy Conlin]

Unfortunately, I don't have git installed on the command line. I don't have admin access to use the binary installer and I've been unsuccessful in compiling from source.

[stevestreeting]

The only other thing I can think of is that the Subversion install is maybe missing the perl bindings which git uses. You mentioned 10.7, but maybe this might help: http://victorquinn.com/blog/2012/02/19/fix-git-svn-in-mountain-lion/

Right now SourceTree doesn't package Subversion (since it's not really a Subversion client, just interoperates) and just assumes you have everything installed.

[Jeremy Conlin]

I did have this working without a problem when I was on 10.6. I tried a variety of things and finally decided it was easier to re-clone whatever was in the svn repository and start from scratch. I did this on a 10.6 machine. I don't thin this is a problem with SourceTree, but rather the unique circumstances of my setup.

Thanks for the help.