Error in the Appendix A of the SVN Book

[C. Michael Pilato]

Alex Zavatone wrote:
> Failure in the instructions of the quickstart.  Tested on a mac G5 under
> OS X 10.5.4.
> 
> Text from pg 325 and from
> 
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn-book.html#svn.intro:
> 
> -----
> 
> Subversion stores all versioned data in a central repository. To begin,
> create a new repository:
> 
> $ svnadmin create /path/to/repos
> $ ls /path/to/repos
> 
> ----
> 
> The "svnadmin create /path/to/repos" command will fail if that directory
> does not already exist.  This took me forever to find out.
> The book needs an explanation of what to do if the create command fails.

Technically, 'svnadmin create /path/to/repos' will fail if /path/to doesn't
already exist.  Sadly, I don't think the error you get back from 'svnadmin'
reveals that handy bit of information.

Thanks for the report.  We'll see what we can do.

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