Re: ack! trying to run svn mkdir opens vim or something

Josh Howe wrote:
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> Hi again,
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> I'm not just new to subversion, I'm also new to linux. I' trying to run
> svn mkdir to create a tags directory. When I run "svn mkdir
> file:///var/repository/proj1/tags" from a shell it opens up some crazy
> vim program with some commit.tmp file open or something. What is going
> on? Thanks.
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It wants a message for the mkdir operation since you are doing this
directly to the repository. Add -m "your message here" on the command
line to give the message instead of svn bringing up vim to have you add
it there.

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Received on Mon Sep 27 17:34:13 2004