Robert Granville wrote:
> I'm having trouble running the Quick Start example in the Subversion book.
> I'm running on a Windows XP platform, and have
> installed Subversion 1.0.5. If I run svn --version, I get (among other
> things)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> svn import c:\test\first file:///c:/subversion/repository -m "initial
> import"
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I get the following error:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
> svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///c:/subversion/repository'
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> However, if I then start a cygwin session, and I run
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> svn import /cygdrive/c/test/first file:///cygdrive/c/subversion/repository
> -m "initial import"
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[it works]
The Subversion packages distributed with Cygwin do not understand
file:///DRIVELETTER:/ URLs.
And, what's with the weird Subject line?
Max.
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Received on Fri Feb 11 16:51:27 2005