Question

I am trying to create a new branch in Subversion repository with a bit non-standard structure: instead of repo/trunk there is org/trunk/repo. The access is available only using HTTPS protocol.

I was trying to create a branch in semi-standard way (note: the command below is redacted a bit)

$ svn copy \
  https://svn.example.org/svnroot/ph/org/trunk/repo \
  https://svn.example.org/svnroot/ph/org/branches/foo/repo \
  -m "Create a 'foo' branch of /trunk/repo"

This command resulted in strange ‘path not found’ error:

svn: '/svnroot/ph/org/!svn/bc/71/branches/foo' path not found

I don’t think it is permission problem, as the following command

$ svn copy \
  https://svn.example.org/svnroot/ph/org/trunk/repo \
  https://svn.example.org/svnroot/ph/org/branches/foo_repo \
  -m "Create a 'foo' branch of /trunk/repo"

succeeded

Committed revision 72.

What might be the cause of this problem? How can I work around it?

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Subversion server is at version 1.6.19 (r1383947), subversion client is 1.6.17 (r1128011).

Answer 1

By default you can not create intermediate directories on the fly. There is the –parents switch to do this. So the correct command should be:

svn copy --parents \
https://svn.example.org/svnroot/ph/org/trunk/repo \
https://svn.example.org/svnroot/ph/org/branches/foo/repo \
-m "Create a 'foo' branch of /trunk/repo"