svnadmin create — Error?

Question

ok I installed the subversion binary from collabnet onto my win7 computer.

when I ran the installed it put the main files in:

C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Server

it also create an empty directory for my repositories here:

C:\svn_repository

I opened up a cmd.exe and rain this line:

C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Server>svnadmin create /var/svn/repos

it gave me this error:

Repository creation failed
Could not create top-level directory
The system could not find the path specified

After research I found that the file path /var/svn/repos has to already exist. but WHERE?

I tried add this file path to C:\svn_repository making it C:\svn_repository\var\svn\repos I also tried adding the path to C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Server

still get the same error everytime I run:

C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Server>svnadmin create /var/svn/repos

I also tried making the slashes backwards like:

C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Server>svnadmin create \var\svn\repos

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks!!!

Answer 1

The problem is that /var/svn/repos is itself a (Unix-style) path, and doesn't exist. Considering that you're on Windows, you probably want something like this instead:

svnadmin create C:\svn_repository\newrepository

(If that fails, try creating the directory manually first: mkdir C:\svn_repository\newrepository and then the command above.)