If you want to use URL operations, the whole url should use ‘/’ separators. It now tries to open the local directory file:\\....something <file:///\\....something> , which certainly won’t exist because file: is not a valid device specifier on Windows.
You want to use something like $ svn mkdir -m "Create directory structure." " <file:///\\%25REPOS_DIR:\=\%25\trunk> file:///%REPOS_DIR:\=/%/trunk" " <file:///\\%25REPOS_DIR:\=\%25\branches> file:///%REPOS_DIR:\=/%\branches" " <file:///\\%25REPOS_DIR:\=\%25\tags> file:///%REPOS_DIR:\=/%\tags" But it might be easier to just set the properly encoded path in REPOS_DIR From: Antti Simola [mailto:asimol...@gmail.com] Sent: donderdag 28 mei 2015 11:55 To: Bert Huijben Subject: Re: Error with quick-start experiment Thanks! There's another error now with replaced slashes: C:\>svn mkdir -m "Create directory structure." "file:\\\%REPOS_DIR%\trunk <file:///\\%25REPOS_DIR%25\trunk> " "file:\\\%REPOS_DIR%\branches <file:///\\%25REPOS_DIR%25\branches> " "file:\\\%REPOS_DIR%\tags <file:///\\%25REPOS_DIR%25\tags> " svn: E020024: Error resolving case of 'file:\\\h:\repos\my-repos\trunk' On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Bert Huijben <b...@qqmail.nl <mailto:b...@qqmail.nl> > wrote: Hi, You could use %REPOS_DIR:\=/% instead of just %REPOS_DIR% to replace all ‘\’ characters with ‘/’ (In batch scripts you might have to enable cmd extensions, but on the commandline this is enabled by default) Bert From: Antti Simola [mailto:asimol...@gmail.com <mailto:asimol...@gmail.com> ] Sent: donderdag 28 mei 2015 11:19 To: Antti Simola; users@subversion.apache.org <mailto:users@subversion.apache.org> Subject: Re: Error with quick-start experiment This is what I typed in my last attempt. I've made several attempts after the one that worked earlier. C:\>set REPOS_DIR=h:\repos\my-repos C:\>mkdir h:\repos C:\>svnadmin create %REPOS_DIR% C:\>svn mkdir -m "Create directory structure." "file:///%REPOS_DIR%/trunk <file:///\\%25REPOS_DIR%25\trunk> " "file:///%REPOS_DIR%/branches <file:///\\%25REPOS_DIR%25\branches> " "file:///%REPOS_DIR%/tags <file:///\\%25REPOS_DIR%25\tags> " svn: E235000: In file '..\..\..\subversion\libsvn_subr\dirent_uri.c' line 2307: assertion failed (svn_uri_is_canonical(url, pool)) C:\> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de <mailto:s...@elego.de> > wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:08:17AM +0300, Antti Simola wrote: > Hello, > > > > I’m learning to use the command-line Subversion (1.8.13 64-bit Win, > SLIKSVN) by reading the book online and doing some tests. I followed the > quick-start guide for some experiments: > > > > https://subversion.apache.org/quick-start > > > > The first time around went spotless. But the second time when I wanted to > create another repo for another project I get the following error message: > > > > svn: E235000: In file '..\..\..\subversion\libsvn_subr\dirent_uri.c' line > 2307: assertion failed (svn_uri_is_canonical(url, pool)) > > > when I execute the part that makes trunk, branches and tags > subdirectories. That opens a dialog window for the error as well. Does > anyone have any idea what I’m doing wrong here? > Can you please show exactly what you typed on the command line when this happened? > > > Antti Simola > > > > > > PS: There’s a typo in quick-start guide as the first “ is missing from the > tags subdirectory address. Fixed, thanks.