Re: Switch a file to a dir: can't switch it back to the file

Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> writes:

> This can't be right. Any ideas? Reproduction script and its output
> are below; the error is right at the end of the output.

[...]

> + svn switch file:///home/julianfoad/tmp/svn-switch-test/repos/f f
> /home/julianfoad/src/subversion/subversion/libsvn_repos/delta.c:209: (apr_err=160005)
> svn: Invalid filesystem path syntax
> svn: svn_repos_dir_delta: invalid editor anchoring; at least one of
> the input paths is not a directory and there was no source entry

Nope, something's definitely wrong there. You should be able to work
around this by switching the parent directory to itself, but yeah,
this is a code-path not well-tested. The failure is likely based on
the differences in the ways that dirs and files are translated into
anchors/targets for editor operations.

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Received on Tue Sep 23 01:21:58 2003