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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Rob Hubbard <ro...@softel.co.uk> on 2009/01/22 10:37:36 UTC

Problem with spaces in svn:externals working copy paths

Hello,

Henrik Sundberg recently posted a question about specifying spaces in
ignore patterns (globally or in svn:ignore). I've recently encountered a
similar problem trying to specify spaces in svn:externals. This question
has been addressed on this mailing list before, but my experiments seem
to show either that the solution posed there doesn't work, or that the
behaviour has been broken (perhaps with the introduction of relative
paths).

The thread starts here (this is TortoiseSVN rather than SVN, but the
discussion is still valid):
[TSVN] can't set svn:externals property to reference a directory
with a space
<http://svn.haxx.se/tsvn/archive-2005-08/0550.shtml>

It is possible to specify a space in a URL with '%20'. But, I have found
no way to specify a (corresponding) space in the working copy path.

I'm using the following version of the command-line client:
$ svn --version
svn, version 1.5.3 (r33570)
compiled Oct 9 2008, 09:01:49

[I'm using Windoze XP with Bash in Cygwin, but I get the same results
using plain old MS DOS.]

I have the following externals set on a directory:
$ svn propget svn:externals .
-r8 file:///C:/svn_experiment/repos/dir%20with%20spaces/
dir%20with%20spaces/
dir%20with%20spaces2/ -r8
file:///svn_experiment/repos/dir%20with%20spaces/

(Here, I've tried the old and the new formats.)

Following an update, I get
$ ls -1p
dir%20with%20spaces/
dir%20with%20spaces2/

So, a '%20' in the working copy path part of the externals definition
results in literally that rather than a space. The best I can currently

I've tried various things, such as using spaces, '%20', '&#32',
'&#x20;', '\s', '[[:space:]]', '[\s]', and 'single' and "double"
quotation marks, but none have worked. Some of these were, admittedly,
"grasping at straws", and I had no expectation that they'd work. The '\'
in '\s' is interpreted as a directory separator. The spaces and quotes
are not even parsed.

Is there any further information on this now? I'm not sure what would be
a good syntax if this is added as a feature to SVN. Really something is
needed as a delimiter or escape character that is not permitted in a
valid path on any operating system.

Many thanks,
Rob.

Rob Hubbard

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RE: Problem with spaces in svn:externals working copy paths

Posted by Rob Hubbard <ro...@softel.co.uk>.

Hello again,

Sorry; typically after sending the question think I've found the answer:

There's another thread, which starts here:
svn:externals with a space in the directory name
<http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2007-04/0643.shtml>
and which links to the following bug:
svn:externals doesn't support spaces in local path
<http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2461>

It looks like this is fixed in the forthcoming SVN version 1.6.

Sorry for the noise; hopefully this will at least answer the question
for someone else.

Thanks,
Rob.

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From: Rob Hubbard [mailto:rob.hubbard@softel.co.uk]
Sent: 22 January 2009 10:38
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Problem with spaces in svn:externals working copy paths

Hello,

Henrik Sundberg recently posted a question about specifying
spaces in ignore patterns (globally or in svn:ignore). I've recently
encountered a similar problem trying to specify spaces in svn:externals.
This question has been addressed on this mailing list before, but my
experiments seem to show either that the solution posed there doesn't
work, or that the behaviour has been broken (perhaps with the
introduction of relative paths).

The thread starts here (this is TortoiseSVN rather than SVN, but
the discussion is still valid):
[TSVN] can't set svn:externals property to reference a
directory with a space
<http://svn.haxx.se/tsvn/archive-2005-08/0550.shtml>

It is possible to specify a space in a URL with '%20'. But, I
have found no way to specify a (corresponding) space in the working copy
path.

I'm using the following version of the command-line client:
$ svn --version
svn, version 1.5.3 (r33570)
compiled Oct 9 2008, 09:01:49

[I'm using Windoze XP with Bash in Cygwin, but I get the same
results using plain old MS DOS.]

(Here, I've tried the old and the new formats.)

Following an update, I get
$ ls -1p
dir%20with%20spaces/
dir%20with%20spaces2/

So, a '%20' in the working copy path part of the externals
definition results in literally that rather than a space. The best I can
currently ...

[... do is use an underscore '_'.]

Is there any further information on this now? I'm not sure what
would be a good syntax if this is added as a feature to SVN. Really
something is needed as a delimiter or escape character that is not
permitted in a valid path on any operating system.

Many thanks,
Rob.

Rob Hubbard

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Re: Problem with spaces in svn:externals working copy paths

Posted by Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>.

On Jan 22, 2009, at 04:37, Rob Hubbard wrote:

> Henrik Sundberg recently posted a question about specifying spaces  
> in ignore patterns (globally or in svn:ignore). I've recently  
> encountered a similar problem trying to specify spaces in  
> svn:externals. This question has been addressed on this mailing  
> list before, but my experiments seem to show either that the  
> solution posed there doesn't work, or that the behaviour has been  
> broken (perhaps with the introduction of relative paths).

[snip]

> Is there any further information on this now? I'm not sure what  
> would be a good syntax if this is added as a feature to SVN. Really  
> something is needed as a delimiter or escape character that is not  
> permitted in a valid path on any operating system.


This should be fixed in Subversion 1.6.

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2461

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