Re: Problem with backslashes and network folder

Baptiste wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My repo is : \\sargon\svn\project-hermes (as displayed by Explorer)
> The URL of my first WC is : file:///\sargon/svn/project-hermes/trunk
> (as displayed by Explorer, in the "Subversion" tab)
> The URL of my second WC is : file://sargon/svn/project-hermes/trunk
> (as displayed by Explorer, in the "Subversion" tab)
>
> Can you shed some light on that difference ? How is it possible that
> there are two distinct URLs pointing to the same repo ?
> More generally, depending on the WC, the URLs that Tortoise displays
> in its window (eg. in the "To URL" fields) are :
> - either file://sargon/svn/project-hermes/trunk
> - either file://\sargon/svn/project-hermes/trunk
> A couple of weeks ago, with a previous version of Tortoise (and/or
> SVN), I remember I had to checkout :
> file:///\\sargon/svn/project-hermes/trunk
> And once, I even had to type "file://\\\sargon/svn/project-hermes/tags/
> test" for a Branch/tag command to work !
>
> I don't know if the problem comes from Tortoise, SVN, or both, but it
> needs clarification.

The format file:// is new in 1.5, it won't work with 1.4 clients.
You should check out a fresh working copy (the one which still has the
old url format) with the 1.5 client.

Stefan

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