Stefan Sperling wrote on Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 17:27:52 +0100: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 04:35:32PM +0100, Humm, Markus wrote: > > In File > > > > »D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.7.5\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_wc\wc_db.c«, > > Zeile 2890: Assert-Anweisung schlug fehl > > (svn_dirent_is_ancestor(wcroot->abspath, local_abspath)) > > > > The local path of my svn:externals was this: > > D:/u/svnexternaltest2/gemeinsamme_bibliotheken > > > > If I tried to use ../svnexternaltest2/gemeinsamme_bibliotheken instead > > Tortoise would detect that it contains a .. Or is a absolute path. > > Obviously either Tortoises or SVN's absolute path detection loginc is not > > 100% fool proof as well. > > Yes, this is a bug. Coincidentally this problem was discussed just today. > See http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2012-03/0012.shtml
The assert is a bug, but the error is not. The code does not permit either absolute paths or paths containing ".." elements for security reasons. (to not allow a malicious server to create files in arbitrary places in the filesystem --- i.e., not under the wc root)
