Hosted Subversion repositories don't appear to use the correct method for examining history. I get the following from the Daemon console log:
[2013-12-13 15:46:12] EXCEPTION: (PhutilProxyException) Error while executing task ID 4950 from queue. {>} (CommandException) Command failed with error #1!
COMMAND
svn --non-interactive log --xml --limit 1 ''@1
STDOUT
(empty)
STDERR
svn: E125001: '@1' is just a peg revision. Maybe try '@1@' instead?
at [/isis/phabricator/libphutil/src/future/exec/ExecFuture.php:349]
#0 ExecFuture::resolvex() called at [/isis/phabricator/phabricator/src/applications/repository/storage/PhabricatorRepository.php:207]
#1 PhabricatorRepository::execxRemoteCommand(log --xml --limit 1 %s@%d, null, 1) called at [/isis/phabricator/phabricator/src/applications/repository/worker/PhabricatorRepositoryCommitParserWorker.php:68]
#2 PhabricatorRepositoryCommitParserWorker::getSVNLogXMLObject(null, 1, false) called at [/isis/phabricator/phabricator/src/applications/repository/worker/commitmessageparser/PhabricatorRepositorySvnCommitMessageParserWorker.php:15]
#3 PhabricatorRepositorySvnCommitMessageParserWorker::parseCommit(Object PhabricatorRepository, Object PhabricatorRepositoryCommit) called at [/isis/phabricator/phabricator/src/applications/repository/worker/PhabricatorRepositoryCommitParserWorker.php:44]
#4 PhabricatorRepositoryCommitParserWorker::doWork() called at [/isis/phabricator/phabricator/src/infrastructure/daemon/workers/PhabricatorWorker.php:84]
#5 PhabricatorWorker::executeTask() called at [/isis/phabricator/phabricator/src/infrastructure/daemon/workers/storage/PhabricatorWorkerActiveTask.php:122]
#6 PhabricatorWorkerActiveTask::executeTask() called at [/isis/phabricator/phabricator/src/infrastructure/daemon/workers/PhabricatorTaskmasterDaemon.php:19]
#7 PhabricatorTaskmasterDaemon::run() called at [/isis/phabricator/libphutil/src/daemon/PhutilDaemon.php:85]
#8 PhutilDaemon::execute() called at [/isis/phabricator/libphutil/scripts/daemon/exec/exec_daemon.php:112]The above command will obviously not work on a hosted repository as there is not a working copy: the damons should be using the svnlook command instead.