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 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.
You could create a pre-commit hook to check for the many Windows filename restrictions. I presume Subversion does not itself contain code to do so because this and other filenames that are invalid on Windows are valid on non-Windows operating systems. > Second, how do I undo my error? You could remove the problem item and try again: svn rm "http://svr/sandbox/A\B/bar1.c"; -m "remove bad commit" svn copy --parents "C:\Project_files\sandbox\bar.c" "http://svr/sandbox/A/B/bar1.c"; -m "good commit" Or you could try moving the bad item to the correct path: svn mv "http://svr/sandbox/A\B/bar1.c"; "http://svr/sandbox/A/B/bar1.c"; -m "fix bad commit" You may need to first create the destination directories if they don't already exist in the repository.
