On May 22, 2010, at 06:24, Gary wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> > >> You can only svn copy with url's pointing to within the same >> repository. Or you can do it locally in a checked out working copy and >> commit it back. > > Ah okay. Thanks. Will try again next week when I am back at > work. Perhaps the redbook is misleading here then, because going purely > by the text in the commands shown in the example it looks like two > different repositories are involved: > ,---- > | $ svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/vendor/libcomplex/1.0 \ > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > | http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/libcomplex \ > ^^^^^^^^^^ > | -m "bringing libcomplex-1.0 into the main branch" > `----
The Subversion project generally uses term "repos" to abbreviate the word "repository", *not* the word "repositories" as I also originally thought. I personally tend to use the term "repo" to abbreviate the term "repository" since I find this much clearer.
