square brackets around number 1 put down the tracwiki

[me@…]

editing a tracwiki page the sequence of these characters

open square bracket integer number one close square bracket

as input put down the page 0.10.2 or the entire wiki 0.10.3. Both version show an error like this (0.10.3 it is much more verbose):

Internal Error

/srv/svn/first does not appear to be a Subversion repository.

TracGuide — The Trac User and Administration Guide

[Christian Boos]

The error is not due to the reference to the first changeset (i.e. [1]), rather from the fact that you misconfigured the [trac] repository_dir parameter in you TracIni.

This is an installation issue, so please ask for help on the Trac MailingList or on the IrcChannel.

[me@…]

Replying to cboos:

The error is not due to the reference to the first changeset (i.e. [1]), rather from the fact that you misconfigured the [trac] repository_dir parameter in you TracIni.

This is an installation issue, so please ask for help on the Trac MailingList or on the IrcChannel.

Probably you are right but tracwiki has been working very well for 8 past months…

…untill I put [1] in a 93 times changed wiki page it stops to work, at least for that page.

Tried an upgrade to 0.10.3 and WHOLE the wiki stops to works because that page, step back to 0.10.2, dumped my wiki, deleted the page, and rewritten it without [1], everything goes ok.

Strange misconfiguration error, don't you think? ;-)

happy hacking

[Christian Boos]

Replying to me@roberto.foglietta.name:

… dumped my wiki, deleted the page, and rewritten it without [1], everything goes ok.

Strange misconfiguration error, don't you think?

Well, yes, that must be something else then. Can you give some more details, so that I can try to reproduce the error?

1. location of the svn repository
2. value of [trac] repository_dir
3. output of svn log -v -r1
4. output of select * from node_change where rev=1 from that Trac DB

Thanks!

[anonymous]

Replying to cboos:

Replying to me@roberto.foglietta.name:

… dumped my wiki, deleted the page, and rewritten it without [1], everything goes ok.

Strange misconfiguration error, don't you think?

Well, yes, that must be something else then. Can you give some more details, so that I can try to reproduce the error?

1. location of the svn repository
2. value of [trac] repository_dir
3. output of svn log -v -r1
4. output of select * from node_change where rev=1 from that Trac DB

Ok, you was RIGHT and now I understand why: I never used, on this workstation, trac as a developing tool but just only as a wiki for some high-volatile documents. Because this I never configured my project namend "first" as SVN reposity. Adding [1] trac it has tried to process "Changeset 1" or something related to it that in my case never existed.

I think trac should not projected to be used only for wiki so I do not think this behaviour could be considered as a your fault. May be considered as a possible minor enhachment for those use trac solely as wiki? In the case I just rescheduled the ticket.

Sorry for your time, thanks.

[Christian Boos]

Replying to anonymous:

… I think trac should not projected to be used only for wiki so I do not think this behaviour could be considered as a your fault. May be considered as a possible minor enhachment for those use trac solely as wiki?

This is easily doable since Trac 0.10, simply leave the repository_dir parameter empty at environment creation time, or clear the value afterwards in the TracIni.