Life of the IT-Drummer

A web log from Tobias Rusås Olsen.

Failed to execute WebDAV PROPPATCH

Failed to execute WebDAV PROPPATCH
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: At least one property change failed; repository is unchanged
RA layer request failed
svn: Error setting property ‘log’:
Could not execute PROPPATCH.

Has this error occured when you try to commit something to SVN? It happened to me, and while debugging it, I discovered that it was caused by the commit message containing newline characters.

If I tried commiting something like

“1

1″, I would get that error.

Solution: Don’t have newlines in your commit messages. If you have a better solution, please use the comment function!

UPDATE: This only happens in Windows (Vista).

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3 Responses to “Failed to execute WebDAV PROPPATCH”


  1. R u using Vista? whyyyyy


  2. I just ran into this problem with a project I’m working on at Google code … your solution worked perfectly!

    FWIW: It also happens in XP.


  3. I also ran into this problem when working on a Google Code project and skipping line breaks in the commit solved it for me as well.

    I am running RabbitVCS SVN on Ubuntu 10.04, so apparently it’s not only a MS Windows problem..

    Thank you!

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