[plt-dev] svn, more confusion

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 19 12:44:03 EDT 2009

Just in case anyone else wants to do this, Dave helpfully supplied a workaround.

(Note that I'm using svn v1.6.2, so this isn't fixed there yet.)

Robby

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Dave Gurnell<d.j.gurnell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 19 Jun 2009, at 16:33, Robby Findler wrote:
>
>> I'd like to create a branch from a specific revision. I tried this:
>>
>> svn copy http://svn.plt-scheme.org/plt/trunk/collects/redex@14919
>> http://svn.plt-scheme.org/plt/branches/robby/redex-pat
>>
>> but got the usual "please give me your password" message which I now
>> interpret as "something is broken".
>>
>> Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
>
> I don't really understand the SVN command line so I tend to stick to what I
> know. FWIW I'm fairly sure the following commands would work on the Untyped
> SVN:
>
> cd <WORKING_COPY>/plt/branches/robby
> svn copy -r14919 http://svn.plt-scheme.org/plt/trunk/collects/redex
> redex-pat
> svn commit redex-pat
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Dave
>
>


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