Thanks! I got it working now by following the updated quick-start. There's perhaps one typo remaining as the drive is missing from this address:
> svn checkout "file:///repos/my-repos/trunk" ./ On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Bert Huijben <b...@qqmail.nl> wrote: > If you want to use URL operations, the whole url should use ‘/’ > separators. It now tries to open the local directory 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:///%REPOS_DIR:\=/%/trunk" "file:///%REPOS_DIR:\=/%\branches" " > 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:\\\%REPOS_DIR%\branches" "file:\\\%REPOS_DIR%\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> 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] > *Sent:* donderdag 28 mei 2015 11:19 > *To:* Antti Simola; 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:///%REPOS_DIR%/branches" "file:///%REPOS_DIR%/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> 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. > > > > >