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List:       subversion-users
Subject:    Re: Cannot access or download from google code repository
From:       Mike Dixon <michael.dixon () denovosoftware ! com>
Date:       2010-01-28 20:30:12
Message-ID: 4B61F3D4.3030506 () denovosoftware ! com
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Brandt Mackay wrote:
> This is what has been happening every time I download from the SVN on 
> Google Code:
> 
> *What browser (or hg/svn client) are you using? On what operating system?*
> Rapid SVN, Smart SVN, Synchro SVN and Tortoise SVN. Tried on both Windows
> XP and Windows 7
> 
> *What steps will reproduce the problem?*
> Step 1.Download and install any SVN program
> Step 2.Go to the google code source checkout 
> Step 3.Insert the SVN checkout code in SVN program
> and where you want to download it to.

Hi Brandt,

It's possible that it's a problem with your firewall or connection, but 
  this is my guess (since I've done this myself a couple of times):

You went to the page on Google Code that gives you the command to use to 
check out the project, and copy-pasted the path into your GUI-style SVN 
client. The problem is, what GCode gives you is something like this:

   svn checkout http://proj.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ proj-read-only

Which is correct... for the svn command-line program, "svn". But what 
you pasted into the GUI was something like this:

   http://proj.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ proj-read-only
                                        ^
The catch is this space here ----------^

That's not a typo; when you're using the command-line svn, it's the 
delimiter between the real checkout path and the local location that you 
want to checkout to, when you're sending it to the command-line svn app.

What your GUI client is looking for is just the path, ie:

   http://proj.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Of course, it's entirely possible that it's actually your firewall or 
something, and that I'm the only one ever to make this mistake, and now 
everyone's going to laugh at me. :)

-Mike

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