Cannot checkout a local svn repository via file://

Question

on my local machine I created a svn repository and filled it with my svn dump from another server.

svnadmin create foo
svnadmin load --ignore-uuid foo < svn.dump

Now I want to checkout the trunk branch from the local file system to work on it. But when I try to check it out, in a folder next to it, I always get the hole repository.

svn checkout file:///data/foo/

Of course I tried it with trunk or a branch name at the end. This results in the following message:

svn: E170000: URL 'file:///data/foo/trunk' doesn't exist

Which makes sense since the path does not exist:

$ ls
conf  db  format  hooks  locks  README.txt

I cannot figure out how to checkout the branch and I could not find what I need in svn checkout --help .

Does someone have a hint how to do it or if it is really not possible?

Thank you in advance.

Regards, Hoall

Answer 1

The use of ls is unhelpful as svn uses a database to store the repository.

Use: svn ls file:///data/foo/ to identify the top level directories in your imported repository.

See this document for details.