SVN Initial Indexing Fails with 'Unexpected line in overall diff'
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
Initial indexing of SVN repository fails with a similar exception reported in the fisheye-debug-<date>.log:
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2011-12-02 07:03:07,302 ERROR [InitialPinger4 Delphi_Builder] fisheye.app BaseRepositoryScanner-handleSlurpException - Problem processing revisions from repo <Repository Name> due to class com.cenqua.fisheye.rep.DbException - Problem getting diff information for rev30043
com.cenqua.fisheye.rep.DbException: Problem getting diff information for rev30043
Caused by: com.cenqua.fisheye.svn.diff.SvnDiffException: Exception processing diff for revision 30043
Caused by: com.cenqua.fisheye.svn.diff.SvnDiffParsingException: Unexpected line in overall diff
Cause
Fisheye has been configured to use the SVN native client instead of the bundled default svnkit.
Resolution
Update Fisheye to use the bundled svnkit client as documented here.
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