Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> writes: > On 07.07.2015 19:58, Zk W wrote: >> Hi All >> >> We have SVN 1.6. >> We like to perform a svn merge on a file where its filename has spaces. >> eg >> Roaming Apple.txt >> >> Is this syntax correct below to svn merge to a working copy ? >> If not, what should it be ? >> >> svn merge -c 12345 "https://mytext.abb.com/app/path/to/Roaming >> Apple.txt" . >> >> using quotes? >> >> >> Right now, we get error >> svn: Unable to parse URL '/svn/app/!svn/bc/12576/path/to/Roaming Apple.txt >> using >> svn merge -c 12345 https://mytext.abb.com/app/path/to/Roaming Apple.txt . >> >> Any help is appreciated. > > > You have to properly escape spaces (and other special characters) in an > URL. See, for example, > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding > > In your case, the URL would be > > https://mytext.abb.com/app/path/to/Roaming%20Apple.txt
It might be a bit more complicated than that. The command line client has code to auto-escape command line URLs. svn_client_args_to_target_array() calls svn_opt__arg_canonicalize_url. The client should automatically convert spaces to %20. The error message shows an ra_neon (or ra_serf?) error while failing to parse a bc URL from the server. I think that means the client has correctly escaped the space and that the error is occurring later. I suppose manually escaping the space might be sufficient to make it work, but it is possible that it will not and that a client/server upgrade is required. -- Philip Martin | Subversion Committer WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data*
