Thanks Jean-Louis
I'm back in business!

Jon

On 2 December 2011 06:58, Jean-Louis Faucher <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jon
>
> The .svn subdirectories contain the needed info, I don't think you need to
> register your local directory. If you right click on the root directory and
> choose "Relocate...", you should see something like that :
> https://oorexx.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/oorexx
>
> If you still have problems, then remove your svn tree and recreate it
> using "SVN Checkout..." from your root directory.
>
> Jean-Louis
>
> 2011/12/2 Sahananda (Jon) Wolfers <[email protected]>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have had to completely reinstall windows on my laptop.  I still had the
>> ooRexx svn tree, but I needed to register it as a repository with tortoise
>> svn (version 1.7.1 on Windows XP SP3).
>>
>> I right clicked on the root directory and choose create repository here I
>> get the error message
>>
>>> Subversion reported an error while creating a repository!
>>> Make sure the folder is empty and not write protected
>>
>>
>> So I deleted all the files (I still have them on a backup) pointed at the
>> folder and clicked create repository.
>> That created an empty repository (not what I wanted) so I spent a futile
>> few minutes rtfm-ing and guessed that import would do the trick.
>> It allowed me to specify the url of the repository, but then sat for 20
>> minutes or so with a dialog box on screen which reads
>>
>>> Action: Command
>>> Path Import D:\My Documents\ooRexxSVN to
>>> https://oorexx.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ooRexx
>>
>> Which reads to me like the wrong way around.
>>
>> It has now woken up and asked me for my username and password.
>>
>> I don't want to enter them, in case I replace the tree on the SVN with my
>> empty repository.
>>
>> Can anyone guide me through the process of connecting with the SVN using
>> tortoise please,
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>>
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