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Re: An issue in repository browser.

From: Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:09:36 +0100

On 10 June 2010 01:12, Serge Tumanyan <tumanyan_at_mail.ru> wrote:
> Hello, All.
>
> Here is a strange behavior, at least I understood this as an issue:
> Steps to reproduce
> 1. Create a repository on your local machine.
> 2. Branch a couple of times any of the test branches, for example let this
> branch be a 'trunk/test' and its copies will be 'branches/copy1' and
> 'branches/copy2'.
> 3. Make some changes in one of the branches that were branched from the
> original branch, e. g. in 'branches/copy1'.
> 3. Try to merge one of the branches that were branched back e. g. merging
> 'branches/copy1' to 'trunk/test' and notice that in the second page of merge
> dialogue the from URL browse button causes the folder selector instead of
> repository browser even if the repository URL is pointing on the repository
> correctly. In other words in our example even if we have the URL looking as:
> 'file://\\\e:/Repository' where the 'repository' is the folder containing
> the repository we get the 'select folder' dialogue instead of repository
> browser.
> 4. Merge the changes back to the branch we have started with in our example
> in 'trunk/test'.
> 5. Try to merge the changes from the branch we have started with to another
> unchanged branch e. g. try to merge 'trunk/test' to 'branches/copy2' and
> notice that TSVN will give you a message that file could not be found even
> in case the path is totally correct.
>
> All this happens only in case you are using the local repository, no
> problems can be experienced with the remote repository.

I don't know if this is related. Using file://\\\e:/path/to/repos as a
URL is deprecated. Subversion should work with
file:///e:/path/to/repos now, and it may be that URL canonicalisation
is messing up somewhere.

Simon

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