Re: svn mkdir error message can be improved

Jens Seidel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to create multiple directories using svn mkdir at once and failed
> with
>
> $ svn mkdir -m" " file://$(pwd)/repos/dir1/dir2
> svn: File not found: transaction '0-1', path '/dir1/dir2'
>
> because dir1/ doesn't yet exists. (I used version 1.3.0 (r17949).)
>
> I suggest to improve the error message.

OK, I agree it's not a very good error message.

> Using -m"" I get a usage hint (is this wanted?)

That's because, in your shell, all of the following are identical:

   -m"" file://...
   "-m" file://...
   -m file://...

so in fact you are not giving an empty argument to "-m". To do so, write:

   -m "" file://...

> and without -m switch svn opens an editor *before* it fails.

Yes, that's expected.

> Remark: A related issue is
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1776

For the benefit of other readers, that issue's summary is:

   "copy and mkdir should create intermediate directories"

- Julian

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Received on Wed Jan 11 22:09:45 2006