Re: Possible bug in error message E160020

Benoit de Biolley <lepirlouit_at_hotmail.com> writes:

> this bugs is on the eror message that outputs the source directory in place of the destination directory.
>
> when i'm executing this :
>
> "svn --non-interactive copy --file C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\maven-scm-1138477127.commit --revision 6237 http://svn.xxx.be/xxx-svn/pow/trunk/ http://svn.xxx.be/xxx-svn/pow/tags/R4.10.1t"
>
> error message is :
> svn: E160020: Path 'trunk' already exists
>
> error message should be :
> svn: E160020: Path 'R4.10.1t' already exists

The error is that trunk already exists, inside R4.10.1t. The target of
the copy is either the final destination or the parent of the final
destination depending on the state of the repository. This is the same
as the Unix cp command, but can be confusing:

svnadmin create repo
svn mkdir -mm file://`pwd`/repo/A
svn cp file://`pwd`/repo/A ^/B # creates ^/B
svn cp file://`pwd`/repo/A ^/B # creates ^/B/A
svn cp file://`pwd`/repo/A ^/B # error A, i.e. ^/B/A, exists

We probably ought to put the full path in the error message so that it
is easier to understand.

-- 
Philip Martin | Subversion Committer
WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data*