TortoiseSVN: Error message when committing a file

Question

I am using TortoiseSVN to commit a file, but I am getting the following error message:

Error post-commit hook failed (exit code 25) with output:
Error An unexpected error has occurred. The process at spawn ID exp5 has produced the following output:
Error yes
Error
Error Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/var/www/.ssh/known_hosts).
Error Password:

What does this mean, how do I fix it?

Answer 1

It means (as written)

post-commit hook failed

and it is not related to TortoiseSVN, but to the Subversion configuration on the server side. Some ugly not-tested-carefully script, added as a post-commit hook to the repository, returned a non-zero value (25). A non-zero exit code for a hook means "NOT OK here", and the output of running the failed post-commit hook is shown to you.

Locally, you don't need to change anything. You don't need to worry about it, because your changes were already committed. You should ask your repository-admin, "WTF, dude?!"