Maybe this sounds harsh, but try to learn something about the filesystem you are using. If the path "/var/svn/newrepos" can not be found on your filesystem, Subversion can't use it. Take a look at this tutorial [1]. It explains how you can create a repository in your home directory.
[1] http://www.rubyrobot.org/tutorial/subversion-with-mac-os-x Hth, Nick Stolwijk ~Java Developer~ IPROFS BV. Claus Sluterweg 125 2012 WS Haarlem http://www.iprofs.nl On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Andy Levy <andy.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 16:51, Thomas Garrod <whidbeyto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks Bob. I looked at the free book, but it looks word-for-word the same, >> Getting New Data into Your Repository is exactly the same. Can you point me >> to the right place? >> I thought perhaps the information under Initial Check Out would set up an >> initial file structure. >> I tried: >> Macintosh:GraphicArt TommyHome$ svn checkout >> https://ksfgraphics.goolecode.com/svn/trunk/ kwfgraphics --username >> whidbeytomas >> ---and got this: >> svn: OPTIONS of 'https://ksfgraphics.goolecode.com/svn/trunk': Could not >> resolve hostname `ksfgraphics.goolecode.com': Host not found >> (https://ksfgraphics.goolecode.com) > > That's not a Subversion error, it's a network error (can't resolve > hostname) because you have a typo. It should be > https://ksfgraphics.googlecode.com > > But when that's corrected, Google reports that it's a bad URL. Make > sure your URLs are right before you panic about not knowing how to use > Subversion. >
