How can I solve svn error: "E200007: Cannot mix repository and working copy sources"

Question

I looked here for this issue, and none of the solutions pertain to me. The issue reported by other folks had a backslash in their command line, which I do NOT have. In my case, I'm trying to make a branch off a branch, so I did this:

- Existing branch: https://mysvn.repo.com/project/branch
- Created https://mysvn.repo.com/project/branch/private_branches folder in TurtoiseSVN explorer
- Tried svn cp -m "My private branch" https://mysvn.repo.com/project/branch https://mysvn.repo.com/project/branch/private_branches/my_private_branch

I get error in posts's title. Any pointers please?

Solution

The command line is not seeing this as two URL's. Perhaps you have space in the URL, in which case you should encode that as %20 instead of entering a space? Here is an example I just did using same syntax as you:

$ svn cp -m "Test branch" http://oneeight.tigris.org/svn/oneeight/trunk http://oneeight.tigris.org/svn/oneeight/branches/mptest1
Committed revision 24.

Comments

[Chris F]

No space in the URLs, but thanks. In your example, where is the %20?

[Nouman]

My example was just a simple one to show that the syntax you used was correct. There is no space in my URL, so no %20

[Rockin4Life33]

Spaces in the message surrounded by double quotes is NOT an issue by any stretch of the imagination! Removing the spaces of a commit message in SVN or GIT is not going to change a thing; except make an difficult to read commit message if it is a long and detailed message.