Subversion

Here’s another one of those Subversion idiosyncrasies which threw me the other day and I couldn’t readily find an answer for. When committing a changeset I kept getting the error “Can’t create directory” followed by the the path of the repository on the server then “The system cannot find the path specified”. The first thing to get clear is that this is a Subversion error, it’s not related to the local working directory nor is it related to Tortoise SVN. Looking at the path in the image abo...

Here’s the scenario; you have a Subversion repository that has been doing some multitasking. For whatever reason (convenience, laziness, ignorance), the one repository was used to store multiple projects and having now seen the light you want to split it out into separate repositories. This is entirely possible but it takes a bit of work and in many cases, quite a bit of trouble shooting (the kind you won’t normally find in the SVN books). I’ve done this a number of times recently and learnt a l...

I’m a big fan of Subversion. As far as source control management products go I find it pretty intuitive and very easy for people to get to grips with regardless of their degree of technical competence. The autonomy it has from the prime time technology stacks gives it broad appeal and the fact that it’s freely available is surely a significant part of why it’s so popular today. If you’re looking for pure source control management, it’s hard to go past SVN. Following is the process I recently we...