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Re: svn export bug in cygwin, with svn 1.0 client

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-03-29 21:12:39 CEST

On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 13:10, solo turn wrote:
> i tried a:
>
> ls /cygdrive/d/tmp/ # works
> svn export trunk/proj/ /cygdrive/d/tmp/myproj # does not work
> svn: Can't create directory '/cygdrive/d/tmp/myproj': The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> while in the normal w2k command prompt it works. is this a bug or misuse?

The svn commandline client isn't a native cygwin binary like the 'ls'
command is. It doesn't understand cygwin "mounts", because it's a
normal win32 console application. So the answer is: misuse. If you
want to use svn in cygwin, build it in cygwin.

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