You need the RA layer to perform the commit/propset that runs the hook that runs 'svnlook -t'.
Greg Stein wrote on Fri, 9 Apr 2010 at 00:15 -0400: > What? I thought svnlook was purely a server-side tool. What does the > RA layer have to do with it? > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 21:34, Paul Burba <ptbu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As I mentioned in IRC earlier this week, svnlook_tests.py 12 was > > failing for me on Windows over ra_neon and ra_serf (svnlook_tests.py > > 11 on the 1.6.x branch). > > > > The test failed when the python pre-commit hook failed to write the > > output of 'svnlook -t' to a temporary file. Thing is, breaking a > > debug mid-way through the tests' commit so the transaction file was > > still present, and running svnlook from the command line worked fine. > > Heck, even running the hook script from the command line worked. > > > > At first I thought that only a release build of Apache was > > susceptible; running the tests again a debug version of httpd.exe > > worked fine. Somewhat belatedly I tried running against a manually > > started release build of httpd.exe and damn if it didn't work too. > > > > So it seems something is amiss with my Apache InstallBin target, > > though what I'm not yet sure (and honestly won't be spending any more > > time trying to figure out unless someone else has the same problem). > > > > Anyhow, I mention all of this because for me it would have blocked > > 1.6.11, but all is good now. > > > > Paul > > >