On Feb 8, 2010, at 08:41, anatoly techtonik wrote: > I am trying to checkout from local repository using relative file > path, but it fails to recognize it no matter how I try: > svn co testrepo testwc > svn co file:///testrepo testwc > svn co ./testrepo testwc > svn co file://./testrepo testwc > svn co file:///./testrepo testwc > svn co "file:/testrepo" testwc > > svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL > svn: Unable to open repository 'file://./testrepo' > > Why is this restriction?
I don't think of it as a restriction; it's just a feature that doesn't exist. "svn checkout" simply currently requires you to supply a fully-qualified URL.
