How to properly update svn plugin config after first initialization? [JIRA 4.4, SVN plugin 0.10.7]

[Bartłomiej Kot]

After configuring 2 repos in subversion-jira-plugin.properties file according to instructions provided in readme file I copied 3 jar files to lib folder and properties file to class folder and restarted jira service. Then I made few commits containing issues IDs to the repos I declared in subversion-jira-plugin file. On the project main screen on the Subversion Commits tab I can see all commits I made – everything works.

However If I add another repository in config file this repo seems to be ignored – commits made to third repo doesn’t appear on Subversion Commit tab.

I suppose that content of the subversion-jira-plugin.properties file has been cached somewhere because in the export file (C:\Program Files (x86)\Atlassian\Application Data\JIRA\export\<date and time>.zip\entites.xml) there are only entries “OSPropertyString” containing values of users, paths, names etc. of the 2 repositories that were first created, nothing about third repository.

I have restarted jira service and cleared folder {$jira's_index_dir}/plugins/atlassian-subversion-revisions/ few times with no luck. I have set Subversion Revision Indexing Service delay time to 3 minutes.

My config file:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Atlassian\JIRA\atlassian-jira\WEB-INF\classes\subversion-jira-plugin.properties:

svn.root=http://localhost:8080/svn/test1/trunk

svn.root.1=http://localhost:8080/svn/test2/trunk

#added after first initialization

svn.root.2=http://localhost:8080/svn/test3/trunk

svn.display.name=Test1 Repository

svn.display.name.1=Test2 Repository

#added after first initialization

svn.display.name.2=Repo3

# Subversion username same for all repos

svn.username=<user>

svn.password=<mypass>

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Probably I am missing something, so my question is:

How to properly update svn plugin config after first initialization? [JIRA 4.4, SVN plugin 0.10.7]

[JamieA · Accepted solution]

The way it works is confusing... the properties file appears to update the list of repos only if they don't already exist (in the database).

Instead of adding repos through the properties file, which is hard to maintain as you need to bounce jira every time, add them through the UI. Admin -> Repositories.

[Bartłomiej Kot]

Thank you. Works like a charm.