Thanks, your advice helped. What ended up working was: svn add "PATHWSPACES"\subdir1\ cd "PATHWSPACES"\subdir1\subdir2 && svn revert -R .
Thanks, Simone -----Original Message----- From: olli hauer [mailto:oha...@gmx.de] Sent: Friday, September 5, 2014 5:45 PM To: users@subversion.apache.org Cc: Simone Agha Subject: Re: SVN skipping revert after add for file path with spaces in it On 2014-09-05 22:37, Simone Agha wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble un-adding a directory (recursively) that has spaces in its > name. I am doing this on Windows 8.1 through a batch script. An example of > my code is below: > > set PATHWSPACES=%CD% > svn add "PATHWSPACES"\subdir1\ > svn revert "PATHWSPACES"\subdir1\subdir2\ --recursive > > When I run the batch script, the files are added correctly, but I get this > line when the directory is supposed to be reverted: > > Skipped 'C:\Path with spaces\subdir1\subdir2' > > Setting the PATHWSPACES variable using quotes of any kind does not work. > However, what does work is typing out the complete path which is not feasible > for what I'm trying to do with the batch script. So, this works: > > Set PATHWSPACES=%CD% > svn add "PATHWSPACES"\subdir1\ > svn revert "C:\Path with spaces\subdir1\subdir2\" --recursive > > Putting quotes around the entire path or putting quotes around the variable > and the entire path also does not work. I get the following messages: > For code that is: svn revert "PATHWSPACES\subdir1\subdir2" > --recursive > svn: E155007: 'C:Path' is not a working copy > For code that is: svn revert ""PATHWSPACES"\subdir1\subdir2\" > --recursive > Skipped 'C:\Path with spaces\subdir1\subdir2" -recursive' > > Help! What is going on? Unfortunately, I can't change to a path name without > spaces. > I can think about two solutions 1) instead using "PATHWSPACES"\subdir1\ use "PATHWSPACES\subdir1\" 2) cd "PATHWSPACES\subdir1\" && svn revert -R Even windows self has today issues with masking spaces in the path, you will find x samples with quoted paths in the registry or on technet. Not exactly your issue but describes how to use cmd and quotes http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771320.aspx
