[Anthill] VSS can't get revision history build fails

[Eric Minick]

Rob,

If you edit your VSSRepositoryAdapter, is the repository.vss.root set? 
If it isn't, some commands will fail while others will successfully use 
the environment variable.

Eric

Rob Mew wrote:

>Dear anthill-list
>
>I've got a project in VSS.  Anthill successfully gets the latest version and get ant to builds it.  The problem is when anthill tries to get the revision history.  I get the error below.  Any suggestions?
>
>Cheers
>
>Rob
>
>15:59:14:054 [Thread - AnthillBuildDaemon] INFO  com.urbancode.anthill.BuildMana
>ger  - Step 7) Publish Project:
>15:59:14:101 [Thread - AnthillBuildDaemon] INFO  com.urbancode.anthill.adapter.V
>SSRepositoryAdapter  - get revisions since command: cmd /x/c cd /d "c:\anthill\w
>ork\YMMessaging\WORKING" && "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VSS\win32\
>ss" cp "$/YMMessaging/WORKING" -Y"robm","mbor" &&
> "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VSS\win32\ss" history -Y"robm","mbor"
> -R -I-Y -vd07/08/2004;03:59P~07/08/2004;10:10A
>
>No VSS database (srcsafe.ini) found.  Use the SSDIR environment variable or run
>netsetup.
>15:59:14:257 [Thread - AnthillBuildDaemon] ERROR com.urbancode.anthill.BuildMana
>ger  - Exception when getting revisions.
>com.urbancode.anthill.adapter.RepositoryException: Exception when getting revisi
>ons.
>        at com.urbancode.anthill.adapter.VSSRepositoryAdapter.getRevisionsSince(
>VSSRepositoryAdapter.java:211)
>        at com.urbancode.anthill.BuildManager.loadRevisions(BuildManager.java:28
>9)
>        at com.urbancode.anthill.BuildManager.build(BuildManager.java:217)
>        at com.urbancode.anthill.AnthillProject.releaseProject(AnthillProject.ja
>va:231)
>        at com.urbancode.anthill.BuildDefinition.run(BuildDefinition.java:158)
>        at com.urbancode.anthill.BuildDaemon.run(BuildDaemon.java:73)
>
>
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