NetBeans 7.1 and Subversion 1.7

Question

We're moving our version control from some old VCS to SVN, for ease of integration with IDE's (we're using both NetBeans and IBM RAD).

In doing so, I set up a local repository with SlikSVN for win64 and started a server with the command svnserve -d -r c:\repo\test. I defined a basic group with an user-password pair (no anonymous access allowed). My authz is as follows:

[groups]
li_users=alessandro

[/]
@li_users=rw

I then created a test project on both RAD (fitted with Subclipse 1.8) and NetBeans and tried to import it into the newly created repository, with the following outcomes:

• On RAD, I didn't have any problem accessing/importing into repositories both via file:///c:/repo/test and svn://localhost/.
• On NetBeans, I could import the project "TestProject" using the file:///c:/repo/test, but I couldn't using the svn://localhost/ link. After I'm presented with the Import comment page and directory suggestion using the project name, it gives me this error: org.tigris.subversion.javahl.ClientException: URL 'svn://localhost/TestProject' doesn't exist

Funny thing is, when I browse my repository by any means, including clicking the "Browse" button on the import wizard, it shows the "TestProject" directory and I can't create another with the same name. Also, if I create (with the "Into a new Folder") and try to use another directory, it gives me the same error.

What's wrong there? I searched and it seems to be a bug with NetBeans, but I can't find a way around this bug. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Apparently, falling back to Subversion 1.6 is the only way to go, at least until NetBeans catches up with 1.7.

Answer 2

If you don't mind coming across a few errors you can try out the development branch of Netbeans (7.2 Beta) It has SVN 1.7 bundled. I have both 7.1.2 and 7.2 Beta installed for this reason...