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Asked: 2026-06-06T12:51:32+00:00

For some simple Windows batch script, I want to temporarily create a copy of

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For some simple Windows batch script, I want to temporarily create a copy of a certain folder in an local working copy of an svn repository at a certain revision. I do not want to checkout directly from the svn server (because then my script needs to know what the server address is, and potentially I would need to authenticate etc.)
And I can not just copy the subfolder, as the hidden .svn folder is higher up.

I have been trying some variations on (with the repo folder containing the .svn hidden folder):

svn co file:///E:/repo/paper@48 E:/temprepo

But that doesn’t work. My Windows 7 command prompt answers with

svn: E180001: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'file:///E:/repo/paper'
svn: E180001: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: E180001: Unable to open repository 'file:///E:/repo/paper'

I am doing something wrong, or is what I am trying impossible?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your question seems bit ambiguous. I can think of two ways of looking at this.

    1. Assuming you just want a copy of a sub-folder in a svn working copy WITHOUT the .svn folders.
      You can use svn export to copy a given sub-folder of a working copy like this – svn export E:\repo\paper E:\temprepo.

    2. Quote:

      And I can not just copy the subfolder, as the hidden .svn folder is
      higher up.

      EDIT: This file structure is only available in subversion v 1.7. In a subversion client with version 1.6.x sub-folders in a working copy should be self-contained. Meaning you may duplicate it to another place, and do subversion operations like svn update etc. in it.

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