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Asked: 2026-05-31T13:30:30+00:00

I’m using the default Cygwin installation on a Windows 7 machine. When I try

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I’m using the default Cygwin installation on a Windows 7 machine.
When I try to do a checkout, the svn client resolves the target path incorrectly.

For example, the command:

svn checkout http://subversion:81/svn/project/trunk "/cygdrive/c/Users/LeMe/Desktop/project test"

will start tracing stuff like

Checking out test

A    C:\cygdrive\c\Users\LeMe\Desktop\project test\src\
A    C:\cygdrive\c\Users\LeMe\Desktop\project test\src\com
...

and will checkout the folder to the exact folder C:\cygdrive\c\Users\LeMe\Desktop\project test\ on my hard drive, instead of following the normal pointer to c in cygwin.

Any ideas how to let the svn client resolve the target path correctly?
I’ve already tried to use quotes, use no spaces, even created a shortcut in the folder C:\cygdrive\ named c point to c:. But no result so far.

Maybe useful:

$ which svn
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/CollabNet/Subversion Client/svn
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  1. Editorial Team

    Don’t use a Windows Subversion install in Cygwin. Run the Cygwin installer, install the “svn” package, and everything should start working properly.

    Do beware line-ending issues if you’re planning on using both a Windows Subversion client and the Cygwin one. In particular, expect any files that have svn:eol-style set to native to cause issues. It’ll all work, but you’ll need to run things through unix2dos and/or dos2unix on occasion when the system complains at you or reports files have changed when they haven’t.

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