>>> I just cannot get drive letters to work for me under windows.
>>> I am running cygwin on both machines
>>> This works:
>>>
>>> svn list svn+ssh-family:///Preserve/svnrepos/inet
>>>
>>> These fail:
>>>
>>> svn list svn+ssh-family:///C:/Preserve/svnrepos/inet
>>> svn list "svn+ssh-family:///C|/Preserve/svnrepos/inet"
>>> svn list svn+ssh-family:"///C|/Preserve/svnrepos/inet"
>>> svn list svn+ssh-family:///C\|Preserve/svnrepos/inet
>>
>> Under cygwin, windows drives are adressed as /cygdrive/<drive letter>/, so
>> svn list svn+ssh-family:///cygdrive/c/Preserve/svnrepos/inet
>> might work.
>
> Exactly.
>
> Drive letters are allowed in URLs by some win32 special-casing. The cygwin
> build of subversion is essentially a unix build, so that special-casing is
> not present. (It could be added, but that would require someone to choose to
> write the necessary changes).
>
> Max.
I think another option would be to uninstall cygwin svn and
install the plain win32 version instead. Then you would:
- be able to use the drive letter access method
- have a newer version of svn, since cygwin lags behind
Raye
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Received on Mon Oct 25 18:15:41 2004