Re: regression in subversion with 1.7.18 (and .19)

[David Rothenberger <daveroth at acm dot org>]

David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 5/27/2013 2:34 PM, David Boyce wrote:
>> I've encountered a regression in svn client behavior between Cygwin
>> 1.7.17 and 1.7.18. I also tried today's snapshot which doesn't fix it,
>> though I suspect the problem is actually in the svn port to Cygwin,
>> not the DLL (by way of evidence I downgraded a 1.7.18 install to use
>> cygwin1.dll from 1.7.17 and it fails the same way).
> 
> The problem is in the svn port for Cygwin, as you mentioned. When
> building svn for Cygwin 1.7, I removed support for DOS paths. This
> unintentionally removed support for UNC paths as well.
> 
> I'll see what I can do to restore UNC path support without also enabling
> DOS path support.

I think the recently release subversion-1.7.9-2 package will fix your
problem. It does not fix all uses of UNC paths, especially those passed
on the command line (e.g., "svn status //server/share" or "svn export
//server/share") because those require teaching libapr1 about UNC paths,
which I haven't done (yet?).

Still, I think it will support your use case of the config directory on
a UNC share.

Please give it a shot and let me know.

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