OK, we're making headway. Changed the svnserve call to:
svnserve -d -r g:/svnrepo
Then tried importing so:
G:\>svn import e:/websites/cityfax/site svn://localhost/ -m"Original import"
svn: Authorization failed
What do I do about authorization?
A. Alfred Ayache
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Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Oct 26, 2006, at 19:47, A. Alfred Ayache wrote:
>
>> Well, I started svnserve in a DOS-box, under my one user on this
>> workstation. So I have full admin rights.
>>
>> Is it possible I have different versions of client and server? Would
>> that cause this sort of problem? Because it's complaining about the
>> format file...
>
> Yes, you can have different versions of server and client. No, it
> shouldn't cause problems; 1.x servers and clients are guaranteed to be
> reasonably compatible with each other. It might just be that some newer
> features can't be used unless both server and client are the new
> version. The complaint about the format file merely means that
> Subversion cannot find it; this is the file Subversion tries to locate
> to determine if a directory is a repository, that's all.
>
>
> On Oct 26, 2006, at 20:42, Brad Bruce wrote:
>
>>> On Oct 26, 2006, at 09:56, A. Alfred Ayache wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK, I changed the svnserve startup to:
>>>>
>>>> C:\WINDOWS>svnserve -d -r file:///g:/svnrepo
>>>>
>>>> Then tried the import again:
>
> [snip]
>
>>>> G:\>svn import e:\websites\cityfax\site svn://localhost/ -m"Original
>>>> import"
>>>> svn: Can't open file 'file:\\\g:\svnrepo\format': The filename,
>>>> directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
>
> [snip]
>
>> Shouldn't C:\WINDOWS>svnserve -d -r file:///g:/svnrepo actually be
>> C:\WINDOWS>svnserve -d -r g:\svnrepo
>
> Yes, it should; good catch!
>
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