In IntelliJ IDEA, why is Subversion integration not working for me (all Subversion related commands are always disabled)?

Question

I configured IntelliJ IDEA 6.0.6 to use Subversion for version control. The Subversion menu item now appears in the context menu when I right-click a Java file in a project. However, all elements of the submenu are disabled:

• Subversion> Add
• Subversion> Check
• Subversion> Change Properties

(..)

• Subversion> Unlock

Exceptions are Subversion> Revert, Subversion> Annotate and Subversion> Browse Changes, which are included. However, if I try to use Annotate, for example, I get this error:

Error: svn: C: ... \ tools does not work copysvn: cannot read from before C: ... \ tools.svn \ format: the path refers to a directory or read access is denied.

When I use my Subversion client outside the IDE (which is Tortoise SVN), everything works fine.

Does anyone know a solution for this?

Answer 1

You may have a newer version of the Subversion client than the one included in IDEA. For example, if you use Subversion 1.6 outside of IDEA than the Subversion library in IDEA 6.0.6 (I don’t remember what version it was, but maybe Subversion 1.3 or 1.4) will not be able to read your working copy.

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