C. Michael Pilato wrote on Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 09:42:53 -0400:
> On 03/15/2013 06:48 AM, Tom wrote:
> >
> > Hi mailing list :)
> >
> > Please, help me to find out what is going on in our repository. I am
> > preparing some automatic tool
> > to work with svn and there is one thing, which is confusing to me.
> >
> > I want to do checkout to some revision:
> > If I use peg revision everything is ok as expected:
> >
> > svn co https:\\...\branch10_at_11893 -r 11893
> >
> > But when I try to ommit peg revision:
> >
> > svn co https:\\...\branch10 -r 11893
> >
> > "E195012 Unable to find out repository location occurs for
> > https:\\...\branch10" occurs.
>
> Your first syntax instructs Subversion to:
>
> - find the 'line of history' that intersects the path
> "https:\\...\branch10" in revision 11893 (the @ rev)
> - walk that line of history until you get to revision 11893
> (the -r rev)
> - checkout that object (regardless of its path in the -r
> revision)
>
> As you can tell, the second step of that set of instructions seems
> redundant, right? And in fact, it *is* redundant. Your command-line could
> have just been:
>
> svn co https:\\...\branch10_at_11893 # without the -r
>
> The second command syntax instructs Subversion to:
>
> - find the 'line of history' that intersects the path
> "https:\\...\branch10" in HEAD (the implied @ rev)
> - walk that line of history until you get to revision 11893
> (the -r rev)
> - checkout that object (regardless of its path in the -r
> revision)
>
> > Problem is that as I
> > browse the repository in Tortoise svn Repo Browser for revision 11893
> > theres IS path https:\\...\\branch10.
>
> If I understand you correctly, back in r11893 there was a "branch10".
> Later, that "branch10" was moved elsewhere and a new "branch10" came into
> being. That's fine.
>
> The question is: what is the very first revision for the directory which is
> called "branch10" in HEAD? You should be able to get the answer using this
> command:
>
> svn log -q -r1:HEAD --limit 1 https:\\...\branch10
Need to pass --stop-on-copy too
>
> If the answer is a revision that's younger than r11893, then that explains
> why Subversion has complained.
>
>
> --
> C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Enterprise Cloud Development
>
Received on 2013-03-15 20:58:44 CET