Re: [TSVN] Ampersand in directory names stopping updates

Michael Hope wrote:

> Morning. This is with TortoiseSVN 1.0.6 build 1200 running against
> Subversion 1.0.5 on Apache 2.0.49.
>
> When updating from a directory with an ampersand in the name or a child of
> that directory, a update will fail with a 'REPORT request failed on
> '/svn/!svn/vcc/default': 400 Bad Request error. A TCP dump shows a handful
> of requests being processed with the final REPORT failing due to a
> non-escaped '&' in the XML from the client.

You should report this to the Subversion mailing list
(users@subversion.tigris.org). This issue has come up before and it got
fixed - seems it got broken again.

> While playing about with this, I noticed the repository browser tree in
> TortoiseSVN doesn't handle & correctly. The control seems to be treating
> the & as an accelerator character instead of a raw char, so the directory
> appears as 'Cables _Connectors' (the _ is an underlined space as in the
> underlined F in the File menu).

That on the other hand is an issue of TSVN. I'll have a look at that one.

Stefan

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Received on Fri Jul 9 13:06:44 2004