Re: Unrecognized URL scheme for '' (SOLUTION)

Well, I found the answer to my own problem...

I decided to just use the brute force method. First I checked out the entire directory tree a second time to a different location. Then I ran a bash loop to remove each subdirectory, one by one, and after each move, check to see if it could do an "svn st -u" on the main directory, and stop if it was successful. About half way through, it stopped giving the "Unrecognized URL scheme" error and returned successfully. Then I had the problem subdirectory identified. So I repeated the loop moving downward, until I finally found that it was a problem with one of the "entries" files in one of the .svn directories. The problem turned out to be that the repository URL was different.

So basically, the entire directory tree had "entries" files that all pointed to something like:

   http://xxx.xxx.info/repos/trunk/project/www/html

But this one directory had an "entries" file using this URL (notice the ".com" instead of ".info"):

   http://xxx.xxx.com/repos/trunk/project/www/html

The thing is that both the .com and the .info URLs resolve to the same repository server. But I guess Subversion gets very confused if you change the URL in one of the subdirectories of a tree? I'm actually not even sure how this happened, but maybe at some point someone had decided to blow away the subdirectory and check it out again with a different revision number. Or maybe we had done a merge or some other command, and used the wrong URL.

Anyway, thought I'd post the full solution for the next person that runs into this. Also, maybe the error message could be changed to something more descriptive. :-)

Thanks,
Russell

----- Original Message ----
From: Russell G <myuniqueemail@yahoo.com>
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 2:41:28 PM
Subject: Unrecognized URL scheme for ''

Hi, I've searched in various places for a solution to this problem, but haven't found the answer yet.

I'm getting this error when trying to do anything against the server, for example "svn status -u":

   Unrecognized URL scheme for ''

Notice that there's no URL mentioned at all. The strange thing is that I've had this repository and this directory tree checked out for a couple of years now, and I just started getting this error in the last few days. So far it's happened in three different directories. The first two times, I was able to just delete the whole directory and update it again, but now it's happened near the very top of the (very large) directory tree and I can't really do that trick this time.

I've looked through all the files in the .svn directories, both above, in, and below the directory reporting the problem. I've even compared them to backups. But I can't figure out what's causing the error.

Any ideas greatly appreciated! Thanks,

Russell

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