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Subject:    Re: (no subject)
From:       Julien_Cugnière <julien.cugniere () gmail ! com>
Date:       2016-11-14 19:23:49
Message-ID: CAPY4yo7i=xK+jSkbc-uNGVzxR+0eC8M45cNAm79x952kHHS-Gg () mail ! gmail ! com
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Thanks, I will try that !

(and sorry about the missing subject...)
Julien Cugnière


2016-11-11 16:49 GMT+01:00 Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com>:
> On 10.11.2016 20:21, Julien Cugnière wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Today, I stumbled into a situation where TortoiseSVN allowed the user
>> to do something that it should probably prevent. Though I'm not sure
>> it can be called a bug.
>>
>> The scenario is that an inexperienced user is trying to create a
>> branch "B" from "A" :
>>
>> 1. In a working copy, right-click on folder "A", and open the
>> "Branch/tag" dialog.
>> 2. Copy the URL displayed in "From WC / URL", and paste it into the
>> "To path:" field (yes, I know...)
>> 3. In the URL that was just pasted, replace "A" with "B". This step is
>> not strictly required to reproduce the problem.
>> 4. Check the option "Create intermediate folders".
>> 5. Click "Ok".
>>
>> If the path entered in step 2/3 looks like "svn://127.0.0.1/repo/B",
>> Tortoise will then proceed to create the following folders at the root
>> of the repository :
>>
>>     /svn:/
>>     /svn:/127.0.0.1/
>>     /svn:/127.0.0.1/repo/
>>     /svn:/127.0.0.1/repo/B/
>>
>> This succeeds, because SVN is OK with folders containing ":". However
>> Windows is not, and any attempt to checkout or update a working copy
>> of the root of the repository will result in the following error:
>>
>>     '.' is not valid as filename in directory 'c:\path\to\working\copy'
>>
>> Thankfully, once one figures out what is going on, the problem can be
>> fixed easily, by using the repo-browser to delete the offending
>> folder. But it sure led to some anxiety :)
>>
>> This is a user error, but maybe TortoiseSVN could prevent the user
>> from creating a path containing characters invalid in Windows, just
>> like it prevents users from creating files that differ only by case.
>>
>> Anyway, as always, thank you for the hard work put into the
>> development of TortoiseSVN !
>
> Improved the detection or such problems in r27546.
>
> Stefan
>
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