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Re: Problem with filename containing spaces

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:17:21 -0600

On Nov 19, 2008, at 03:58, Jaan Vajakas wrote:

> My experience with SVN is that it works well for small modifications
> like adding, moving or renaming one file, but when doing extensive
> refactoring, I am often confronted with some obstacles. Here is one
> that
> I managed to reproduce, so this must be a bug in SVN or TortoiseSVN.
>
> How to reproduce:
> * Checkout a directory (let’s say directory aa) using TortoiseSVN.
> * Create a subdirectory uu in the working copy aa
> * Create a subdirectory vv in the working copy aa
> * Create file aa\uu\New Text Document.txt
> * Commit aa using TortoiseSVN (adding aa\uu, aa\vv and aa\uu\New Text
> Document.txt to repository)
> * Update aa using TortoiseSVN (probably this step is not necessary)
> * Rename uu to tt using TortoiseSVN->Rename... in the Windows Explorer
> context menu of the working copy of uu
> * Open a new Windows Explorer window in the working copy directory tt
> * Move file New Text Document.txt from tt to vv by holding down the
> right mouse button, dragging the file New Text Document.txt from
> directory tt to directory vv (in the other Windows Explorer window)
> and
> choosing „SVN Move versioned files here“ from the context menu after
> releasing the mouse button.
> * Commit aa using TortoiseSVN
>
> Expected result: commit succeeds and in the repository, the file New
> Text Document.txt is moved from uu to vv and uu is renamed to tt
> Actual result: commit fails with the following messages:
>
> Command Commit
> Adding workspace_geocoding\aa\tt
> Deleting workspace_geocoding\aa\tt\New Text Document.txt
> Deleting workspace_geocoding\aa\uu
> Adding workspace_geocoding\aa\vv\New Text Document.txt
> Error Commit failed (details follow):
> Error '/svn/repos/!svn/bc/42268/sandbox/jaanv/aa/trunk/uu/New' path
> not
> found
> Finished!
>
> I am using TortoiseSVN 1.5.5, Build 14361 - 32 Bit , 2008/10/24
> 18:06:34
> on Windows XP.

Like many users on this list, I don't have an operating system that
TortoiseSVN can run on, so I can't really help. You should either ask
on the TortoiseSVN Users mailing list, or else try reproducing the
issue using the svn command line program, and if you can, then report
that here.

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