Hello!

I am running KDE 4.8.4 on Arch Linux with dolphin plugins and subversion installed. I tried to use the SVN plugin just now and it did not work, i.e. there was no feedback when trying to check out a repository.

I started dolphin in konsole and on doing Right click > Actions > Subversion > Check Out From Repository... the following error is printed in konsole:

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KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you tried to call i18n related functions before your main component was created. You should not do that since it most likely will not work

FAILURE (KCmdLineArgs):
Application requests for isSet("R") but the "R" option
has never been specified via addCmdLineOptions( ... )


I am at a loss. Any hints or tips on further steps?

Thanks and Best Regards,
Michael

Hi Michael,

I don't know about your problem, but this is not the Dolphin SVN plugin. Weird as it sounds, the SVN plugin does not offer a checkout option yet and only comes into action after you have a checkout (notice you need to enable it before in the options).

I guess that the context menu you see comes from KDESVN, so maybe you can research in their reported bugs.

Thanks for your input.

I enabled Subversion in the 'Configure Dolphin > Services > Version Control Systems (checkmarked Subversion)'. I could not find any package named kdesvn, most likely that one is inside some other kdesdk package...

This issue is not that important, since SVN update / commit ... all work for existing working copies. Maybe this checkout is a stub as you suggested and there never was the intention to provide a checkout from repo...

Anyway, sufficiently solveable for me so marking as such.

Thanks again,
Michael

The package is community/kdesvn, and it is indeed their context menu. Here's a screenshot to show the difference:



The whole submenu "Subversion (kdesvn)" is from kdesvn, and so are the upper update and commit actions in the root menu.
The 4 entries from "SVN Update" to "Show SVN Updates" come from the dolphin-plugins. Also the icon overlays above the files come from dolphin-plugins. I hope this makes things a bit more clear.

Thanks for the screenshots, I double checked and installed kdesvn. I installed the kde meta package and thought kdesvn had been installed with it so I only queried local packages the first time I checked.

The screenshot is just for reference. The Subversion (kdesvn) works as advertised, i.e. with all SVN functionality including checkout from repo. The action you see below was the one I meant in my original post and which did (does) not work. The 4 entries you mentioned are available in a SVN working directory though.

Perhaps you have a service menu installed which provides this?