Re: repository question

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:10:21AM +0100, O.Geisser@ceyoniq.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is my first question to the list though I'm a spectator for quite a
> while.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ben Collins-Sussman [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
> > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:06 PM
> > To: Jack Huang
> > Cc: 'dev@subversion.tigris.org'
> > Subject: Re: repository question
> >
> >
> > Jack Huang <HuangJ@masirv.com> writes:
> >
> > > - How do I create a repository? Do I do like CVS, where I export a
> > > directory $CVSROOT, and all incoming adds will go into this
> > directory?
> >
> [...]
> > % svnadmin create /absolute/path/to/repository
> >
> > This creates an empty repository. Then you can import something into
> > it, either locally, or over dav:
> >
> > % svn import file:///absolute/path/to/repository /some/local/dir
> > % svn import http://foo.com/repos/path /some/local/dir
> >
>
> I remember there were problems getting this to work on Win32 because
> of difficulties with file URLs on Win32.
>
> Is this solved, or is it still not possible to create a local repository on
> Win32 ?

There were actually two issues with win32. I'm not sure whether the first
one was fixed, but the second definitely wasn't (there is a work around
though).

There is a problem, that the subversion team beleives is in Berkeley DB,
that only shows up on windows 98. I can't remember the specific details, but
will try to dig them up later on today.

The other issue, having to do with file urls was that subversion doesn't
recognize them is they have the drive letter specification. The workaround
is to be on the same drive, because the drive specification is accepted for
the other path, just not the URL.

Clear as mud now?

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