Subversion’s mysterious malformed or missing path
I hit a couple of little hurdles with Subversion this week which I thought I’d share simply because I couldn’t find much public information about it and it was only through trial and error it got resolved. The context was I was adding an externals [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch07s03.html] to a project from another repository and there were two little barriers that threw a spanner into the works. For the sake of simplicity, here’s a recreation of the scenario: The first problem is t...