Version Control with Subversion 1.3

Ben Collins-Sussman sussman at red-bean.com
Sun Sep 24 20:41:57 CDT 2006


Actually, svnadmin *does* create a new directory, but only the final
component of the path.  We just need to make that clearer.


On 9/22/06, Robert Murphy <robert.louis.murphy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found this error:
>
> <screen>
> $ svnadmin create /path/to/repos
> $ ls /path/to/repos
> conf/ dav/ db/ format hooks/ locks/ README.txt
> </
> screen>
>
>  <para>This command creates a new directory
>
> That is not true, it creates a new repository if /path/to/repos exits.
> If /path/to/repos does not exist it creates an error message:
>
> svnadmin create /path/to/repos
> svnadmin: Repository creation failed
> svnadmin: Could not create top-level directory
> svnadmin: Can't create directory '\path\to\repos': The system cannot find
> the path specified.
>
> I think the entry should be reworded:
>
> <screen>
> $ mkdir /path/to/repos
> $ svnadmin create /path/to/repos
> $ ls /path/to/repos
> conf/ dav/ db/ format hooks/ locks/
> README.txt
> </screen>
>
>  <para>This command creates a new directory
>
>
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