Have you tried replacing the '#' with '%23'? Hth,
Nick Stolwijk ~Java Developer~ iPROFS Wagenweg 208 2012 NM Haarlem T +31 23 547 6369 F +31 23 547 6370 I www.iprofs.nl On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Caroline Warren <carolinewarre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am looking into the possibility of us using Subversion for our source > control and I have encountered a problem using the “svn checkout” command to > checkout from a URL with a # character. I also have tortoiseSVN install and > I do not seem to encounter this problem when I checkout using tortoise. The > only difference I can see is that the version of subversion is 1.6.13 for > the command line client I have installed and the version of subversion is > 1.6.12 on the tortoise client I have installed. The error I am seeing is > shown below. Could you please let me know if you are aware of any problems > using the # character in filenames or have any idea what could be causing > this? > > > > C:\ >svn checkout "http://svn.xxxxx.com/svn/its-support/C#Apps" > "C:\Documents and Settings\C_Warren\My Documents\TestCheckout" > > svn: Server sent unexpected return value (400 Bad Request) in response to > OPTIONS request for 'http://svn.xxxxxx.com/svn/its-support/C#Apps' > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Caroline