On Feb 10, 2011, at 09:15, Fabian Richter wrote: > Why is that a "feature" and can you please add an --force switch to > still being able to create Repositories within the path of another?
I should add: this check was added to Subversion to prevent people from doing things that make no sense. If you believe you know better than Subversion (and I continue to think you do not in this case) then it is of course trivial to bypass this check: $ svnadmin create repo1 $ svnadmin create repo1/repo2 svnadmin: 'repo1/repo2' is a subdirectory of an existing repository rooted at 'repo1' $ svnadmin create repo2 $ mv repo2 repo1 $ ls repo1 README.txt db hooks repo2 conf format locks $ Et voilà, you have repo2's directory inside repo1's directory. So no --force switch or modification of the Subversion source code is necessary to accomplish this questionable goal.
