Re: Newbie question: Whats the windows svn url

llothar@web.de wrote on 10/07/2005 02:08:45 PM:

> I have setup a svnserve server on port 2006 of my machine but when i
> want to checkout the data i get only errors. I tried:
>
> svn checkout svn://666.666.666.666:2005//z:/work_repositories/foobar
>
> (gives me the german error message that the file name is not correct
(sure it
> starts with a '\')
> svn: Kann Datei '\z:\work_repositories\arachno\format' nicht öffnen: Die

> Syntax für den Dateinamen,
> Verzeichnisnamen oder die Datenträgerbezeichnung ist falsch)
>
> and
>
> svn checkout "svn://666.666.666.666:2005//z|/work_repositories/foobar"
>
> Results in the the error, that
> \z|\work_repositories\arachno\format
> can't be opened (because of the wrong file name syntax).
>
> The repository is the "z:\work_repositories\foobar" directory.
>
> So the 2 cent question is, what must i type ?

Normally you would start svnserve something like this:

svnserve -d -r z:\work_repositories

Which means you would access your repository from a client like this:

svn://host:port/foobar

Mark

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