RE: Windows and cygwin and drive letters

>>> 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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Thanks for all the responses but still no luck.
I am actually using the Windows installation of subversion but using cygwin
for ssh.

I am going to try to modify svnserve.exe to make it echo what it gets to a
file, so I can look and see what it is really getting.

I will post back here when I see what it is receiving.

John Petritis

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Received on Tue Oct 26 01:56:53 2004