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RTC SVN Import Fails Due to Missing Encoding


Dan Clark (1824) | asked Dec 18 '14, 11:03 a.m.
I am attempting to import an SVN dump file into Rational Team Concert using the RTC process described here:

I get an error on a particular commit that fails the import and results in a stack dump like this:

I've tried changing the encoding on the import in many ways. I've also tried importing up to 1 changeset before the failing one and then trying to import the failing one with multiple encodings, nothing works. If I strip out this changeset and skip it the import will fail a few hundred commits later. Looking at the commit that fails, nothing special is done, only editing a dozen lines in a few source code files in the baseline. Any thoughts?

com.ibm.team.repository.common.TeamRepositoryException: An internal error occurred importing change set 'Revision 10691: (5/13/14 3:42 PM) '

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.internal.ChangeSetArchiveImporter.importChangeSetArchive(ChangeSetArchiveImporter.java:357)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.internal.ImportArchiveOperation.doImport(ImportArchiveOperation.java:97)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.internal.ImportArchiveOperation.run(ImportArchiveOperation.java:68)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.internal.ImportArchiveOperation.performImport(ImportArchiveOperation.java:153)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.internal.ui.ImportOperation.importIntoWorkspace(ImportOperation.java:186)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.svn.internal.ui.SVNDumpFileImportOperation.importIntoWorkspace(SVNDumpFileImportOperation.java:135)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.internal.ui.ImportOperation.repositoryRun(ImportOperation.java:123)

                at com.ibm.team.repository.rcp.ui.operations.RepositoryOperation.run(RepositoryOperation.java:43)

                at com.ibm.team.repository.rcp.ui.operations.JobRunner.run(JobRunner.java:240)

                at com.ibm.team.repository.rcp.ui.operations.JobRunner$1.run(JobRunner.java:63)

                at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: encoding must be supplied

                at com.ibm.team.filesystem.common.util.LineDelimiterUtil.getNonVerifyingLineDelimiterConverter(LineDelimiterUtil.java:41)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.internal.ChangeSetArchiveImporter$4.getInputStream(ChangeSetArchiveImporter.java:1048)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.content.BasicVersionedContentManager.storeContent(BasicVersionedContentManager.java:303)

                at com.ibm.team.filesystem.client.internal.content.FileContentManager.storeContent(FileContentManager.java:306)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.internal.ChangeSetArchiveImporter.setContents(ChangeSetArchiveImporter.java:1169)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.internal.ChangeSetArchiveImporter.setContents(ChangeSetArchiveImporter.java:1066)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.internal.ChangeSetArchiveImporter.performModification(ChangeSetArchiveImporter.java:1206)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.internal.ChangeSetArchiveImporter.collectChange(ChangeSetArchiveImporter.java:664)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.internal.ChangeSetArchiveImporter.collectChanges(ChangeSetArchiveImporter.java:601)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.internal.ChangeSetArchiveImporter.commitChanges(ChangeSetArchiveImporter.java:586)

                at com.ibm.team.scm.client.importz.internal.ChangeSetArchiveImporter.importChangeSetArchive(ChangeSetArchiveImporter.java:334)

                ... 10 more


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Dan Clark (1824) | answered Jan 13 '15, 8:31 a.m.
After working through the PMR process with IBM it was determined that there is a bug in the newer 5.x Eclipse client. This is a client side error. To solve the problem I had to go back to the Eclipse 4.0.4 client IDE. This version of the IDE was able to connect to RTC 5.0.1 and the import completed successfully. The PMR will likely be turned into a bug to be fixed in a future release.

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