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Unable to copy or move directories with Subversion
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I have checked out a repository via SSH from a hosted Subversion repository.

The checkout command was: `svn checkout 'svn+ssh://vcs@obfuscated/diffusion/WEB/' web

I am then unable to svn cp or svn mv directories, but files are fine. For example, it is possible to svn mv file file2 and svn cp file subdir/file is fine, but svn cp dir newdir or svn mv dir newname does not work. The error message is something like this:

svn: Source url 'svn+ssh://vcs@obfuscated/diffusion/WEB/htdocs-20130926' is from different repository

I cannot figure out why this gives an error message. I have verified that the Subversion URL is correct with svn info and have also tested to enter the Subversion UUID into Phabricator (Edit Subversion info) since it was not autodetected and there was some text there indicating that it could be needed for certain operations.

We have Git repositories working just fine, but all our Subversion repositories experience the above problem.

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D12173rPffe654e5e30e Fix directory moves and copies in Subversion hosted repositories

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holmboe created this task.Nov 7 2014, 3:21 PM
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Reference https://github.com/phacility/phabricator/issues/747 since it might be the same underlying problem.

holmboe renamed this task from Unable to copy or move with Subversion to Unable to copy or move directories with Subversion.Nov 7 2014, 3:23 PM

I tried this as well with the same result:

svn cp svn+ssh://vcs@obfuscated/diffusion/WEB/htdocs-20130926 svn+ssh://vcs@obfuscated/diffusion/WEB/htdocs-2014-11-07
chad added projects: Diffusion, Arcanist.Nov 7 2014, 3:48 PM
chad added a project: Subversion.Nov 7 2014, 8:39 PM
• yyang added a subscriber: • yyang.Nov 8 2014, 6:43 AM

Thanks holmboe! I think we got exactly the same issue. But is there a chance that the svn hosting used to be correct, and broke by any of the recent versions?

I don't know how to debug PHP so I gave up.

btrahan added a subscriber: btrahan.Nov 8 2014, 7:01 AM

Here's the best link I could find...

http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/xcode/283541-subversion-svn-copy-wc-url-fails.html#284928

afaik this is some subversion black magic problem

timesking added a subscriber: timesking.Dec 16 2014, 2:36 AM
timesking added a comment.Dec 16 2014, 6:14 AM

It is really a big problem.

josch added a subscriber: josch.Feb 4 2015, 9:34 AM
tekcor added a subscriber: tekcor.Mar 26 2015, 5:31 PM

I've just run into this problem as well. This is really a showstopper issue, enough that I may need to abandon using Phabricator/Diffusion for my Subversion hosting.

epriestley added a revision: D12173: Fix directory moves and copies in Subversion hosted repositories.Mar 26 2015, 6:07 PM
epriestley claimed this task.Mar 26 2015, 6:08 PM
epriestley triaged this task as Normal priority.
epriestley removed a project: Arcanist.
epriestley closed this task as Resolved by committing rPffe654e5e30e: Fix directory moves and copies in Subversion hosted repositories.Mar 26 2015, 6:13 PM
epriestley added a commit: rPffe654e5e30e: Fix directory moves and copies in Subversion hosted repositories.
epriestley added a comment.Mar 26 2015, 6:15 PM

This should be resolved in HEAD. Sorry this took so long to address!

tekcor added a comment.Mar 26 2015, 7:26 PM

Thanks again Evan, I can confirm this issue is fixed.

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