LiuYan 刘研 wrote on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 00:19:54 -0700: > > Thank you Erik, > > 1. I think I got the cause: > I use Subversion in windows system, it's a little different to linux/unix > system: > The ^ character is a special character in command prompt window or batch > file. the ^ character and it's following characters MUST be quoted:
Or doubled: ^^/trunk . And this is documented. > E:\Incoming\svntest\calc\branches\new-branch>svn list ^/ > svn: '\' is not a working copy > E:\Incoming\svntest\calc\branches\new-branch>svn list "^/" > calc/ > paint/ > tools/ > > > 2. But, > beause ^ means "the URL of the repository's root directory”, why svn-book > use ^/trunk instead of ^/calc/trunk ? > It seems the book is inconsistent on whether 'calc' is a repository or a directory inside a repository. Could you report this to the svnbook list please?
