On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Hatem Jaber <393_at_7079.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am really having trouble with svn copy, not sure what i'm doing wrong,
> but i'll do my best to explain how I got there.
>
> 1) Opened up svn-acl.txt (dir permission file) and added the following:
> [groups]
> team1 = rachel, harry, sally
>
> [ClientA:/]
> @team1 = rw
>
> [ClientA:/branches/mybranch]
> ross = rw
>
>
2) Subversion.conf - This file points to the "Repositories" directory which
> will be the place I store each repository per project
> 3) SVN-Auth-File - This of course has the U/N and P/W for each of the 4
> team members
> 4) Opened up a CMD window and typed the following:
> a) mkdir C:\Repositories\ClientA
> b) svnadmin create C:\Repositories\ClientA
> c) svn mkdir http://my.url.com/svn/ClientA/Trunk (message: "Committed
> revision 1")
> d) svn mkdir http://my.url.com/svn/ClientA/Tags (message: "Committed
> revision 2")
> e) svn mkdir http://my.url.com/svn/ClientA/Branches (message:
> "Committed revision 3")
>
> This is as far as I get before receiving any errors. When I try to run the
> following, I get an error:
> svn copy http://my.url.com/svn/ClientA/Trunk
> http://my.url.com/svn/Branches/mybranch -m "Creating mybranch in the
> Branches directory"
>
> svn: COPY of Branches/mybranch: 400 Bad Request (http://my.url.com)
> svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
> svn: 'svn-commit.8.tmp
>
> I think that I followed the directions from the svn book by using the
> example they showed the long way and the short way of doing it in the Using
> Branches / Creating a Branch in Chapter 4. If anyone out there has had the
> same issue and can offer some advice, I would greatly appreciate it. I am
> running Windows XP Pro, Apache 2.059, Subversion (Latest), and Subclipse
> (Latest). Everything I tried was through the CMD line, I've also tried with
> subclipse and have had no luck. Matter of fact, I get errors when I try to
> copy from the trunk to a branch or just copying back and forth doesn't work
> at all.
>
Likely because you are missing "ClientA" in the branch URL.
Thanks,
-Hari
Received on 2008-02-21 21:10:25 CET