How can I solve svn error: “E200007: Cannot mix repository and working copy sources”

Question

I looked here for this issue, and none of the solutions pertain to me. The issue reported by other folks had a backslash in their command line, which I do NOT have. In my case, I'm trying to make a branch off a branch, so I did this:

- Existing branch: https://mysvn.repo.com/project/branch
- Created https://mysvn.repo.com/project/branch/private_branches folder in TurtoiseSVN explorer
- Tried svn cp -m "My private branch" https://mysvn.repo.com/project/branch https://mysvn.repo.com/project/branch/private_branches/my_private_branch

I get error in posts's title. Any pointers please?

Answer 1

The command line is not seeing this as two URL's. Perhaps you have space in the URL, in which case you should encode that as %20 instead of entering a space? Here is an example I just did using same syntax as you:

$ svn cp -m "Test branch" http://oneeight.tigris.org/svn/oneeight/trunk http://oneeight.tigris.org/svn/oneeight/branches/mptest1
Committed revision 24.

Answer 2

Had the same problem when issuing the SVN command from a script via a variable:

cmd=svn cp [...]
$cmd

The workaround I found is to issue the command directly from the script:

svn cp [...]

Perhaps this works for you/others as well.

Answer 3

I had the same problem and the solution was avoid using spaces in the message. In my case it was because I was running the command on a grid and it gets wrapped automatically by a script that has some problems with spaces and double quotes.

Worked for me:

-m "My_private_branch"

Hope it works for you too.

PS: Haven't tried it but maybe -m 'My private branch' with single quotes does work.