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I followed the steps here to dump and load a SVN repository. I now have a repository called "newrepo" and I would like to check it out. So, I do a "svnserve -d" and then a "svn checkout file:///newrepo newcheckout" and I get the following error:

$ svn checkout file:///newrepo newcheckout
svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'file:///newrepo'
svn: E180001: Unable to open repository 'file:///newrepo'

(This is in Cygwin in Windows 10; the repository is a dump from a VisualSVN server on Windows 7.)

I'm probably missing some the path after newrepo but it's been some time since I used the old repository. Can I find that with "snvlook tree" or some such? Assuming I get the path, what other steps do I need do?

Any help would be much appreciated! Ultimately, I want to migrate the repository to GitHub.

Dan Lowe
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As the comment on your question says, you are mixing two different kinds of access to the repository. Accessing the repository with file:/// will require you to enter the full path your repository, something like file:///C:/mysvnfolder/newrepo.

But if you want to use svnserve (for example, you want to be able to check out this repository from other computer in the network), you need to use the right protocol as well: something like svn checkout svn://localhost/newrepo. Notice that the URI here starts with "svn" and not "file".

Note that these examples will not actually work if you just copy and paste them, but I cannot provide a fully working example without knowing more details about your setup.

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