Re: svn copy --parents allows insertion of an errant '\' in http://path

2014-05-15 Thread Tobias Bading
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

Re: svn copy --parents allows insertion of an errant '\' in http://path

2014-05-15 Thread Dan Ellis
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

Re: svn copy --parents allows insertion of an errant '\' in http://path

2014-05-15 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 6, 2014, at 18:25, Dan Ellis wrote: 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

Re: svn copy --parents allows insertion of an errant '\' in http://path

2014-05-12 Thread Tobias Bading
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

Re: svn copy --parents allows insertion of an errant '\' in http://path

2014-05-12 Thread Tobias Bading
Grrr. That would have to be svn mv -m ... http://svr/sandbox/A\B; http://svr/sandbox/AB; of course. Sorry. On 07.05.2014, at 18:11, Tobias Bading wrote: Umm, forgot the obvious: Did you try to rename the directory directly in the repository, e.g. using svn mv -m ...