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Re: svn: invalid parameter supplied

From: Marvin Solomon <solomon_at_cs.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:41:06 -0500

On 4/20/2010 9:09 AM, Andy Levy wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:57, Marvin Solomon
> <solomon_at_conceptshopping.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a repository with svnserver running on Linux and am trying to set up
>> a client on Windows. ...
>
> There's really no compelling reason to use the cygwin Subversion
> client for the majority of users. Try the native Win32 version. Make
> sure you've got a version which matches your TSVN version.

Thanks for the workaround. The cygwin svn is broken, but the native svn
seems to work fine. This is definitely a bug and should probably be
reported, but I'm not sure where. Any suggestions? Here's some more
info. The windows platform is Windows 7.

BTW, what's TSVN?

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windows> uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 MSOLOMONLT01 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-12 19:07 i686 Cygwin

windows> /bin/svn update Makefile
svn: invalid parameter supplied

windows> /bin/svn --version
svn, version 1.6.9 (r901367)
    compiled Feb 10 2010, 10:34:02

Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet
(http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using
Neon.
   - handles 'http' scheme
   - handles 'https' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
   - with Cyrus SASL authentication
   - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
   - handles 'file' scheme
* ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using
serf.
   - handles 'http' scheme
   - handles 'https' scheme

windows> C:/PROGRA~1/COLLAB~1/SUBVER~1/svn update Makefile
At revision 31105.

windows> C:/PROGRA~1/COLLAB~1/SUBVER~1/svn --version
svn, version 1.6.9 (r901367)
    compiled Jan 21 2010, 22:00:47

Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet
(http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using
Neon.
   - handles 'http' scheme
   - handles 'https' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
   - with Cyrus SASL authentication
   - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
   - handles 'file' scheme
* ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using
serf.
   - handles 'http' scheme
   - handles 'https' scheme
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linux> Linux csi 2.6.9-78.0.17.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Mar 5 04:58:34 EST 2009
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

linux> svn --version
svn, version 1.6.9 (r901367)
    compiled Jan 24 2010, 10:18:33

Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet
(http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using
Neon.
   - handles 'http' scheme
   - handles 'https' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
   - with Cyrus SASL authentication
   - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
   - handles 'file' scheme
* ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using
serf.
   - handles 'http' scheme
   - handles 'https' scheme

linux> svnserve --version
svnserve, version 1.6.9 (r901367)
    compiled Jan 24 2010, 10:18:33

Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet
(http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository back-end (FS) modules are available:

* fs_fs : Module for working with a plain file (FSFS) repository.

Cyrus SASL authentication is available.

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