Re: svn import keeps failing

On May 6, 2011, at 9:24 , Guus Leeuw jr wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Have been trying to
> $ svn import -m "new project" ./empty_repo
> http://bastion.itpassion.com/new_project
> For the last hour, and for the life of me, cannot see the problem.
>
> I have successuflly imported new projects in the past, but this is more than
> a year ago, so I may be getting rusty... Anyhow, I'm thinking that when I
> import, SVN is supposed to create /CodeRepository/new_project and everything
> it needs in there, but the error seems to indicate otherwise...
>
> The error in the apache error log is:
> [Fri May 06 06:52:57 2011] [error] [client 188.220.41.24] (20014)Internal
> error: Can't open file '/CodeRepository/new_project/format': No such file or
> directory
> [Fri May 06 06:52:57 2011] [error] [client 188.220.41.24] Could not fetch
> resource information. [500, #0]
> [Fri May 06 06:52:57 2011] [error] [client 188.220.41.24] Could not open the
> requested SVN filesystem [500, #2]
> [Fri May 06 06:52:57 2011] [error] [client 188.220.41.24] Could not open the
> requested SVN filesystem [500, #2]
>

Hi Guus,

Create the repository on the server first.

  svnadmin create /CodeRepository/new_project

Steve

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