Thank you Tobias and Bert, that worked great.
Should the HTTP URL be checked to prevent including a '\' in the URL? I
understand the server is OK with it, but should the SVN client be able to
commit something it itself cannot support locally?
Thanks,
Dan
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Tobias Bading <tbading_at_web.de> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> I just tried this on OS X (using svn 1.8.0) and I'm able to create a
> directory in the repository with a backslash in its name and delete it
> again.
> My guess would be that this works on other UNIXes as well. So if you have
> access to a non-Windows machine, delete or rename the directory from that
> machine. (Don't forget that you have to escape the backslash with a
> second backslash for the shell.)
>
> Tobias
>
>
> On 07.05.2014, at 01:25, Dan Ellis wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I pulled a silly mistake just now... I accidentally let my windows
> backslash enter into an http URL during an SVN copy operation.
>
> copy --parents "C:\Project_files\sandbox\bar.c" "
> http://svr/sandbox/A\B/bar1.c <http://svr/sandbox/A/B/bar1.c>" -m "bad
> commit"
>
> It successfully committed.
>
> svn update now returns the following:
>
> svn: E155000: 'A\B' is not a valid filename in directory
> 'C:\Project_files\sandbox\'
>
> First, I assume there should be a check to prevent this invalid character
> for URLs. Second, how do I undo my error?
>
> I'm on SVN 1.8.5 and the backslash should give me away as a windows user
> (Win7 - 64bit).
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Dan
>
>
>
>
Received on 2014-05-11 19:54:31 CEST