Sencha Cmd does not work when .svn directories are present

[jattardi]

Due to restrictions on our build server beyond my control, I've been forced to check the Sencha Cmd Linux distribution into our SVN repository for use on build machines. We have to do this with several tools, and they are under a 'third-party' directory in SVN tree.

I'm running into a baffling problem, though. When try to run the sencha command from my project's directory, I get this error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sencha.util.Version.<init>(Version.java:23)
at com.sencha.util.VersionRange.<init>(VersionRange.java:16)
at com.sencha.command.ConfigOverrideLoader.getOverride(ConfigOverrideLoader.java:72)
at com.sencha.command.SenchaConfigManager.checkForOverride(SenchaConfigManager.java:173)
at com.sencha.command.SenchaConfigManager.getConfig(SenchaConfigManager.java:166)
at com.sencha.command.SenchaConfigManager.getConfig(SenchaConfigManager.java:57)
at com.sencha.command.Sencha.<init>(Sencha.java:40)
at com.sencha.command.Sencha.main(Sencha.java:55)

If I recursively go through and delete the .svn directories in the senchacmd directory, it runs fine.

Since the source isn't available, I couldn't check what is causing the exception.

Any ideas what might be causing this behavior?

[mitchellsimoens]

There should be a config set in app.json that says what to ignore.

[jattardi]

I already have .svn set to be ignored:

"ignore": [
  ".svn"
],

Anyway, the problem isn't .svn directories in my project directory. The problem is .svn directories in the sencha cmd's directory.

So for example, I have added the sencha cmd package to my svn repository and I check it out to /home/joe/tools/senchacmd. Since I checked it out from svn, there are .svn directories present at all levels, so for example

/home/joe/tools/senchacmd/.svn
/home/joe/tools/senchacmd/lib/.svn
/home/joe/tools/senchacmd/templates/.svn

etc.

When these directories are present, I get the exception mentioned in the original post. If I simply remove the directories, i.e.

find . -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;

Then Sencha Cmd runs fine. So I do have a workaround, but I thought it seemed like a bug.

[Samuel Horwitz]

Try

"ignore":["\.svn$"] 

or, to be truly JSON compliant

"ignore":["\\.svn$"]