This error is caused by passing an url to an API where a local path was expected. Whether this is a user error that should have been properly reported by TortoiseSVN or a bug in TortoiseSVN is impossible to tell for us without you showing how you invoked the operation.
Bert Sent from Windows Mail From: Beatty, Rachael Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 9:17 PM To: users@subversion.apache.org --------------------------- Subversion Exception! --------------------------- Subversion encountered a serious problem. Please take the time to report this on the Subversion mailing list with as much information as possible about what you were trying to do. But please first search the mailing list archives for the error message to avoid reporting the same problem repeatedly. You can find the mailing list archives at http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html Subversion reported the following (you can copy the content of this dialog to the clipboard using Ctrl-C): In file 'D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.8.2\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_subr\dirent_uri.c' line 1571: assertion failed (! svn_path_is_url(relative)) --------------------------- OK I was trying to checkout projects from my svn repostitory to my working directory. I created the working directory by creating the folder, then using TortoiseSVN to create the subfolders. When I try to check out to trunk I get the above error message. I am using subversion version 1.8.3 and Tortoise SVN 1.8.2 ~ Regards ~ Rachael PeopleSoft Support Team National Security Technologies, LLC Contractor to the United States Department of Energy (702) 295-4679
