Hi, so this post is created due to Twitter’s 140 char limit.. which would be impossible to explain anything in.

Symptoms: Commit’s take forever; Message never goes to the dashboard.

So, I had the issue whereby I could not get messages from subversions submit statements to go up to the UberSVN dashboard. The weird thing being that messages such as ‘Ubersvn Restarted, Repository Created’ type messages working fine.

This pointed me to the post commit hook.

(Please note this is relevant to the Linux version, booting the server into Windows to find out how relevant that is just ain’t something I have time for).

A FQDN (svn.example.com) would not work on my system to connect to UberSVN, but the local network IP address does (you can check this by running the postcommit.jar file with the parameters you find in the post-commit inside opt/ubersvn/(lib?)/repositories/{name}/

Sorry if that’s wrong, but I left work a while back.

If you had the same issue as me it’ll say something along the lines that the UberSVN server cannot be reached, and to contact your system administrator.

You have to manually change the file in post-commit so it’s the IP as mentioned, instead of the FQDN. I also changed the URL to the IP inside UberSVN, but this does not automatically make the changes you need inside these repository files!

If anyone stumbles across this, and I’ve got the directories totally wrong and you’re well lost, just drop me an email at thepauleh@gmail.com!

**Edit** – A few days after making these changes I tried to make a new repository, couldn’t find it.. switched the binaries, apache svn refused to start.. I’m going to create a 10.04 LTS dedicated server for this, hopefully nothing will conflict with it!