Umm, forgot the obvious: Did you try to rename the directory directly in the repository, e.g. using
svn mv -m "..." "http://svr/sandbox/A\B/bar1.c" "http://svr/sandbox/AB/bar1.c"?
Tobias
On 07.05.2014, at 18:04, Tobias Bading 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" -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 2014-05-14 16:57:35 CEST