Question

Recently I updated SUbversion on my server from 1.5 to 1.7.2, and run the command:
svn update https://xxx
and it does not work anymore. It returns
svn:E205000: The xxx is not a local path
Any idea?

Answer 1

You need to compile svn with neon support, which can access a repository via WebDAV protocol.

You can use svn --version to check whether your svn has neon support, something like this:

$ svn --version
svn, version 1.7.1 (r1186859)
....

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon.
  - handles 'http' scheme
  - handles 'https' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
  - with Cyrus SASL authentication
  - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
  - handles 'file' scheme