Robert Gremillion’s Blog

I tend to run into every conceivable error when working on a project.

This afternoon I got this error when trying to commit my Rails app to subversion.

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Could not use external editor to fetch log message; consider setting the $SVN_EDITOR environment variable or using the –message (-m) or –file (-F) options
svn: None of the environment variables SVN_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR is set, and no ‘editor-cmd’ run-time configuration option was found

I found out that my SVN editor environment variables were not set, so I used the -m option to tell it which editor to use and it worked. Here’s the command that worked for me…

svn commit -m vi

Here’s a photo of my softball shirt from a couple of years ago. Is it nerdy enough?