Problem with branching with the file:/// protocol and a network share

Hello,

I sent a message to the mailing list a couple of weeks ago, but the answer did not solve my problem (http://svn.haxx.se/tsvnusers/archive-2008-11/0136.shtml).

When branching with the "file:///" protocole over a network share, the format of the URL that Tortoise suggests is not accepted when submitted.

For example, I click on "Branch/tag". I use the repo-browser, and I select: "file:///\gulliver/svn/hermes/release/1.0.0".
Please note that I use the mouse to browse into the repo. I use the keyboard only to add "1.0.0" at the end of the URL.
Then I click OK, but Tortoise complains that the "src and dest don't seem to be in the same repo", in spite of the fact that the URLs are the ones that Tortoise has formed itself.

If I don't use the repo-browser, and if I modify directly the "to URL" field, WITHOUT ALTERING THE PREFIX THAT TORTOISE HAS DISPLAYED (which is "file:///\gulliver/..."), the problem persists.

A workaround I found is to modify the URL field into "file:///\\\gulliver/svn/hermes/release/1.0.0", and then it works.

Which means that, depending on the action I do with Tortoise, I meet:
- sometimes "file:///\gulliver/..." (the URL's working copy)
- sometimes "file://gulliver/..." (this is what's displayed in the repo-browser)
- sometimes "file:///\\\gulliver/..." (my workaround to make Branch/tag work)

Baptiste

Version information:
TortoiseSVN 1.5.5, Build 14361 - 32 Bit , 2008/10/24 18:06:34
Subversion 1.5.4,
apr 1.2.12
apr-utils 1.2.12
berkeley db 4.4.20
neon 0.28.3
OpenSSL 0.9.8i 15 Sep 2008
zlib 1.2.3

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Received on 2008-11-21 12:22:54 CET