TeamCity 5.0 'Failed to collect changes error' issue

Tonight I was facing an issue with TeamCity 5.0 plugin in Visual Studio 2008.

I was getting the error message “Failed to collect changes error” in the new Local changes window.

Searching on the bug tracking tool of JetBrains for TeamCity I found this issue “TW-10474 I can not make VS addin recollect changes after receiving “Failed to collect changes error””

Has this issue breaks my way to work with pre-tested build I decided to search for a solution because I cannot work without this now!

So following the instruction “Logging in TeamCity Visual Studio plugin” : Reporting Issues

Looking at the produced logs I found this:

9:28:24 PM.987: Thread:31: svn.exe info "xml" "non-interactive" "p:\_projects\handsup\portal"
9:28:24 PM.987: Thread:31: Failed to execute svn. code 1, error svn: Try "svn help" for more info svn: Syntax error parsing revision "projects\handsup\portal" , output <?xml version="1.0"?> <info>
9:28:24 PM.991: Thread:31: EXCEPTION: svn: Try "svn help" for more info
svn: Syntax error parsing revision "projects\_handsup\portal".
Svn has exited with code "1".
SvnInfoUuidCommand failed

I tried then the svn command from the command prompt and got the same error!

I finally renamed the path to my project from “p:_projects\handsup\portal” to “p:\projects\handsup\portal”

And now it works again! So forget strange characters in your path!