Experiences with export of single files

[Al...@HOOD-Group.com]

Hi all,

I just wanted to let people know about my experiences with exporting 
single files from subversion.
Although the solution is in the documentation if you know what you are 
looking for, it took me quite long to isolate the problem. The warning 
messages gave me little clue about what subversion was trying to do here. 
Since even google didn’t come up with a good hit on this problem it might 
just be a good information for some people.

Trying the following did not succeed:

Command:        svn export 
file:///D:/folder/someSvnRepos/reposFolder1/Hello.txt d:\
Result:         svn: Can't move 'D:.tmp' to 'D:': The parameter is 
incorrect.


If you do not export to a drive but to a sub-folder, the error message 
changes.

Command:        svn export 
file:///D:/folder/someSvnRepos/reposFolder1/Hello.txt D:\folder
Result:         svn: Can't move 'D:\folder' to 'D:\folder': Access is 
denied.


Changing slashed didn’t do any good (as was not expected either ;-)

Command:        svn export 
file:///D:/folder/someSvnRepos/reposFolder1/Hello.txt D:/folder
Result:         svn: Can't move 'D:\folder.2.tmp' to 'D:\folder': Access 
is denied.


Finally the trick is to understand that export actually really exports 
INTO the target location. So a file needs to be exported to a file and not 
to a folder, while a source folder's content is exported into the target 
folder, without creating the folder that is being exported itself.

Command:        svn export 
file:///D:/folder/someSvnRepos/reposFolder1/Hello.txt 
D:/folder/0_Hello.txt
Result:         A    D:\folder\0_Hello.txt
Export complete.

Regards,
Alexander
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