[Gambas-devel] Subversion

[Tobias Boege]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Willy Raets wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Beno??t granted me write access to the Gambas svn repo a while ago.
> This so I would be able to upload translations myself, instead of
> sending all to him.
> 
> I had a look at the instructions in the Gambas
> Wiki(http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/howto/svn).
> 
> Somehow it is not working for me, so either something in the
> instructions is not quite as it should or I am misunderstanding them.
> 
> For checkout wiki says:
> svn checkout --username=<user> svn
> +ssh://gambas@...733.../p/gambas/code/gambas/trunk
> 
> I replaced user with my Source Forge account name that Beno??t granted
> write access, but this generated some errors:
> 
> willy at ...734... ~/Gambas3 $ svn checkout --username=<myusername> svn
> +ssh://gambas@...733.../p/gambas/code/gambas/trunk
> [1] 3703
> bash: /usr/bin/lt: File or directory does not exist
> bash: svn+ssh://gambas@...733.../p/gambas/code/gambas/trunk: File
> or directory does not exist
> willy at ...734... ~/Gambas3 $ svn: E205001: Try 'svn help' for more info
> svn: E205001: Not enough arguments provided
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> P.S. I have done checkouts before, but just to compile and install
> Gambas, never with write access. I have looked at svn help but it is not
> helpful at all.
> 

"<" is an HTML entity for "<", so the above --username parameter string
would look like "--username=<myusername>", so that only denotes a
placeholder. The correct line is:

$ svn co --username=name svn+ssh://...

where you literally replace "name" by your username.

Regards,
Tobi

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