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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by "Crucius, Wesley" <WC...@sandc.com> on 2004/03/18 19:46:55 UTC

Help with 'svn copy' error messages

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to perform the following tag/copy operation:
> svn copy "svn:\\tdh014\PQP\PQ001 UPS Master Control Software\trunk\"
> "svn:\\tdh014\PQP\PQ001 UPS Master Control Software\tags\PQ001V0001R001"
> -m "Tagging PQ001V0001R001 during initial import"
> 
> and getting the following error:
> svn: Error resolving case of 'svn:\\tdh014\PQP\PQ001 UPS Master Control
> Software\trunk" svn:\\tdh014\PQP\PQ001'
> 
> I also tried it with the backslashes converted to forward slashes like
> this:
> svn copy "svn://tdh014/PQP/PQ001 UPS Master Control Software/trunk/"
> "svn://tdh014/PQP/PQ001 UPS Master Control Software/tags/PQ001V0001R001"
> -m "Tagging PQ001V0001R001 during initial import"
> 
> And got this other error:
> svn: URL 'svn://tdh014/PQP/PQ001 UPS Master Control Software/trunk/' is
> not properly URI-encoded
> 
> 
> I can't find much information on either of these errors in the help file,
> nor references to these errors on google.  Any sugestions on where else to
> look for help or on what my problem(s) actually is(are)?  I suspect that
> both forms of the problem are a result of badly formatted URI, but I kind
> of thought that the client tool might handle embedded spaces?  Does
> anybody know of a API call accessible from VBScript that will handle
> URI-encoding for me?
> 
> Thanks,
> Wes Crucius
> 

Re: Help with 'svn copy' error messages

Posted by Travis P <sv...@castle.fastmail.fm>.
On Mar 18, 2004, at 1:46 PM, Crucius, Wesley wrote:

> I also tried it with the backslashes converted to forward slashes like 
> this:
> svn copy "svn://tdh014/PQP/PQ001 UPS Master Control Software/trunk/" 
> "svn://tdh014/PQP/PQ001 UPS Master Control 
> Software/tags/PQ001V0001R001" -m "Tagging PQ001V0001R001 during 
> initial import"
>
> And got this other error:
> svn: URL 'svn://tdh014/PQP/PQ001 UPS Master Control Software/trunk/' 
> is not properly URI-encoded
>
> I can't find much information on either of these errors in the help 
> file, nor references to these errors on google.  Any sugestions on 
> where else to look for help or on what my problem(s) actually 
> is(are)?  I suspect that both forms of the problem are a result of 
> badly formatted URI, but I kind of thought that the client tool might 
> handle embedded spaces?  Does anybody know of a API call accessible 
> from VBScript that will handle URI-encoding for me?

I believe that you should have spaces encoded as %20. I'd give that a 
shot.  (And do use forward slashes.)

-Travis


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