Re: svn cp treats filename as directory name

>svn cp svn://192.168.25.29/trunk/linux-2.6.x/sound/blackfin/Makefile_at_232 svn://192.168.25.29/trunk/linux-2.6.x/sound/blackfin/Makefile -m "Copying from rev 232 to maintain history of the files we changed."
>svn: Failure opening '/trunk/linux-2.6.x/sound/blackfin/Makefile/Makefile'
>svn: '/trunk/linux-2.6.x/sound/blackfin/Makefile' is not a directory in filesystem 'C:/Shared/SVN_Repo_uClinux/db'
>
>What is the correct syntax to copy (with history) that Makefile as it existed in the trunk in rev 232 to the head?

I finally figured out how to do what I want to do, but I still think that the error messages
Subversion prints are less than helpful, and in the case where it repeats "...Makefile/Makefile",
just plain wrong (I could see it interpreting my command to mean either a file
called "Makefile" or a directory called "Makefile", but there is no way that command
could mean ".../Makefile/Makefile").

My problem was that linux-2.6.x/sound/blackfin/Makefile already existed in the trunk.
Apparently "svn copy" doesn't overwrite, so you have to "svn delete" then "svn update"
the file before doing the "svn copy". Otherwise you get a message about the file
not being a directory. How intuitive :( I would like to suggest a different error message,
maybe something like

svn: Failure copying '/trunk/linux-2.6.x/sound/blackfin/Makefile'. File already exists.

Steve

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Steve Strobel
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