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Re: Trouble with spaces.

From: Robert Burton <robertburton_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 16:29:56 -0500

Hi

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon_at_freemail.ru> wrote:
> Greetings, Robert Burton!
>
>> I am using apache to serve an svn repository with a space in the name.
>>  I have been successful in getting everything to work except for
>> allowing the log to be changed.  I have set up a
>> pre-revprop-change.bat file to allow changes.  Everything works fine
>> if i use "file:///path/to/svn/xxxx yyyy" to access the repository, but
>> if I use the http://server/svn/xxxx%20yyyy I get the following error:
>
> Where? You've supplied it to SVN commandline, some GUI frontend or you tried
> it in regular browser?

I tried using the http: method using both the svn command line and
TortoiseSVN. I received similar error messages from both. I only
tried the file: method using the command line.

>
>>   svn: Server sent unexpected return value (405 Method Not Allowed) in
>> response to PROPPATCH request for '/svn/xxxx%2520yyyyy/!svn/bln/0'
>
>> For some reason it appears to be escaping the % for the PROPPATCH
>> request but not the others.
>
>> If I remove the space from the repository name, everything works fine.
>
> I doubt it's a good idea to have repo name with spaces.
>
>> I am using a fairly recent x64 version of svn provided by SlikSVN
>> The version tag is: svn, version 1.6.1 (SlikSvn:tag/1.6.1_at_37143) X64
>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> One extremely easy suggestion - just remove space from repository name.
> Then users could just svn switch to new space and continue their work as
> usual.
> But, meh, it's interesting to know why you experiencing such issue.
>

I have already removed spaces from all of the repositories we are
using. I just posted this to the list to find out whether this was a
bug in SVN or a configuration issue on my end that might cause other
problems later.

>
> --
> WBR,
>  Andrey Repin (anrdaemon_at_freemail.ru) 08.05.2009, <23:48>
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>
>

Rob

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