Filed as issue #1306.
Sander
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:10:38PM -0500, Francois Beausoleil wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I have updated the book. I made this patch directly from the
> doc/book/book folder. I only checkout that folder as I do not have the
> required C coding skills, so I checkout what I can work on :)
>
> Anyway, you'll see I updated the users@subversion.tigris.org email to
> dev@subversion.tigris.org. I was not so sure about that change. I put
> it in anyway, at least for the proper markup to be used.
>
> Finally, I documented the fact that on Windows platforms, you *can* use a
> drive specification in your file URL. Just use the appropriate syntax.
> See the patch below.
>
> Thanks !
> Francois Beausoleil
>
> Log message:
> * doc/book/book/appa.xml:
> Minor correction to the text.
>
> * doc/book/book/appc.xml:
> Updated markup for support E-Mail address.
> Rewrote section about Win32 file:// URL access to show how to access
> repositories on different drives.
>
> Index: appa.xml
> ===================================================================
> --- appa.xml (revision 5717)
> +++ appa.xml (working copy)
> @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@
> Subversion examines the <literal>svn:mime-type</literal>
> property. If the file has no <literal>svn:mime-type</literal>
> property, or has a mime-type that is textual (e.g. text/*),
> - Subversion assumes it is text. Otherwise, Subversion it assumes
> + Subversion assumes it is text. Otherwise, Subversion assumes
> the file is binary. Subversion also helps users by running a
> binary-detection algorithm in the <command>svn import</command>
> and <command>svn add</command> commands. These commands will
> Index: appc.xml
> ===================================================================
> --- appc.xml (revision 5717)
> +++ appc.xml (working copy)
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
> Subversion—from building, to installing, to using
> Subversion. If you can't find the problem you're having here,
> or you've tried everything we recommend with no success, send
> - mail to <address>users@subversion.tigris.org</address> with a
> + mail to <email>dev@subversion.tigris.org</email> with a
> detailed description of the problem you're having
> <footnote><para>Remember that the amount of detail you provide
> about your setup and your problem is directly proportional to
> @@ -183,14 +183,19 @@
> </screen>
>
> <para>Then the problem is that Subversion doesn't handle
> - file URLs that have a drive specification. Try changing to
> - that drive then doing an import without the drive spec. For
> - example:</para>
> + file URLs that have a drive specification, unless the URL
> + is properly formatted and special steps are taken to prevent
> + problems. Quote your file URL and put a vertical bar (the pipe
> + character) after the drive specification. An example will
> + help:</para>
>
> <screen>
> -d:
> -svn import file:///some/path/to/repos/on/d/drive e:\file\to\be\imported
> +e:
> +svn import "file:///D|/some/path/to/repos/on/d/drive
> \file\to\be\imported
> </screen>
> +
> + <para>You need to quote the URL so that the vertical bar
> character
> + is not interpreted as a pipe.</para>
> </sect3>
>
> <sect3 id="svn-ap-c-sect-1.2.5">
> --
> Francois Beausoleil
> Developer of Java Gui Builder
> http://jgb.sourceforge.net/
>
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