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Re: Problems sharing existing project - naming and read-only

From: Mark Phippard <MarkP_at_softlanding.com>
Date: 2005-03-31 20:08:31 CEST

Antranig Basman <antranig@caret.cam.ac.uk> wrote on 03/31/2005 10:42:30
AM:

> I have a project (in this case commons-transaction) for which I'd
> like to reassociate my local files with the SVN repository. I think
> I am experiencing two separate problems.
>
> Firstly there is a naming problem. In this case I use the root URL
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
> and the repository URL
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/proper/transaction
>
> These URLs work fine in the SVN Repository exploring view and I can
> check out projects with no problems.
>
> However, with "Share Project..." the situation is different. I am
> asked for a module name for the project.
> Apache does not use module names - the trunk path follows
> immediately after "transaction" in the repository. I've tried
> various options for the module name, including nothing, a slash,
> or "trunk". For almost any choice, I get no error message at all,
> but am told the module name (for any choice) "already exists on the
> repository", and then I see a "Synchronize" view that claims there
> are "No changes".
>
> Secondly, if my some magic I should succeed in getting the path
> right (I am unable to reproduce this now) I get an error indicating
> a write failed to the repository, instead of getting only the update
> synchronize actions.
>
> Any insight into/solutions for these problems would be appreciated.

If your project is already a Subversion WC, then when you do Share Project
it should prompt you to associate it with the repository as opposed to
walking you through the wizard pages you are seeing. For this to work,
the project folder itself has to be part of the WC, not just some
sub-folders.

Mark

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