Re: FEATURE REQUEST: svnadmin to accept URL notation file:///

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Jari Aalto wrote:

>
> According to http://subversion.tigris.org/project_issues.html, I'm
> bringing this issue forward here first.
>
> PROPOSAL
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>
> Support file:/// URL scheme in svnadmin command
>
> RATIONALE
> ===========
>
> Working on local repositories need file:/// prefix in svn commands.
> Copy/pasting links around e.g. to svnadmin would be easier. No need to
> remember to change to use 'Native' OS absolute path.
>
> BUG STATUS
> ===========
>
> This is a feature request for next release, unless already
> implemented.

'svnadmin' only works against the native file system -- it doesn't use
the repository access (RA) layer, which understands various protocols
(e.g. "file://"). While I can see how this is a convenience for the
end user, I'm not convinced that it would be an appropriate addition.

And, we already give a pretty good error here:

  svnadmin: 'file:///tmp/repos' is an URL when it should be a path