Unable to check out subversion projects

Max Bowsher maxb1@ukf.net
Mon Aug 7 17:17:00 GMT 2006


Michael Artz wrote:
> I can't seem to check out subversion projects via http using the
> cygwin svn.  Whenever I try, I get the following error:
> 
> $ svn --version
> svn, version 1.3.2 (r19776)
>   compiled Jul 14 2006, 22:16:08
> ...
> $ svn co http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk vendor/rails
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/rails/trunk'
> svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/rails/trunk': Could not parse response status
> line. (http://dev.rubyonrails.org)
> 
> Funny thing is that I tried the native windows build of svn under
> sygwin and it worked fine, so it doesn't seem to be a proxy issue.  I
> fired up trusty ethereal, and it looks like svn is sending out a
> PROPFIND and getting back an "HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status" response, at
> which point Cygwin svn bails out, yet the windows svn keeps on with a
> couple more PROPFINDs.
> 
> Does this have to do with the choice of line terminators?

I cannot think of any reason why Cygwin Subversion should have 
difficulties with network communication when native-Windows Subversion 
does not.

Checking out rails using Cygwin Subversion works just fine for me.

Max.


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