Please could a Windows user check and confirm this (particularly the two examples in ch02.xml) for me.
I am not running Windows and cannot check it. I believe this is a better patch than the one attached to issue 1306 by Francois Beausoleil (Francois, do you agree?). I will commit it and close issue 1306 if someone confirms it.
Log:
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Book: update the information on using a Windows drive letter in a "file:" URL.
* doc/book/book/appc.xml
Replace the FAQ about working around the inability to specify a drive
letter with one pointing to the section on how to do it.
* doc/book/book/ch02.xml
Correct, update and explain the examples of using a drive letter in a URL.
]]]
- Julian
Book: update the information on using a Windows drive letter in a "file:" URL.
* doc/book/book/appc.xml
Replace the FAQ about working around the inability to specify a drive
letter with one pointing to the section on how to do it.
* doc/book/book/ch02.xml
Correct, update and explain the examples of using a drive letter in a URL.
Index: doc/book/book/appc.xml
===================================================================
--- doc/book/book/appc.xml (revision 6917)
+++ doc/book/book/appc.xml (working copy)
@@ -171,26 +171,9 @@
<sect3 id="svn-ap-c-sect-1.2.4">
- <title>I'm Running Subversion Under Windows and I Can Create
- a Repository Fine, but I Get Errors Trying to Import or
- Check Out from It.</title>
+ <title>How can I specify a Windows drive letter in a URL?</title>
- <para>If the error looks something like:</para>
-
- <screen>
-svn_error: #21085 :
- svn_ra_local__split_URL: Unable to find valid repository
- </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>
-
- <screen>
-d:
-svn import e:\file\to\be\imported file:///some/path/to/repos/on/d/drive
- </screen>
+ <para>See <xref linkend="svn-ch-02-table-1"/>.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="svn-ap-c-sect-1.2.5">
Index: doc/book/book/ch02.xml
===================================================================
--- doc/book/book/ch02.xml (revision 6917)
+++ doc/book/book/ch02.xml (working copy)
@@ -395,12 +395,18 @@
resides:</para>
<screen>
-$ svn checkout file:///X:/path/to/repos
+C:\> svn checkout file:///X:/path/to/repos
…
-$ svn checkout file:///X|/path/to/repos
+C:\> svn checkout "file:///X|/path/to/repos"
…
</screen>
+ <para>In the second syntax, you need to quote the URL so that
+ the vertical bar character is not interpreted as a pipe.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that a URL uses ordinary slashes even though the native
+ (non-URL) form of a path on Windows uses backslashes.</para>
+
</sidebar>
<para>Suppose you make changes to <filename>button.c</filename>.
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