svn "path not found" error when creating a branch using HTTPS

Question

I am trying to create a new branch in Subversion repository with a bit non-standard structure: instead of repo/trunk there is org/trunk/repo. The access is available only using HTTPS protocol.

I was trying to create a branch in semi-standard way (note: the command below is redacted a bit)

$ svn copy \ https://svn.example.org/svnroot/ph/org/trunk/repo \ https://svn.example.org/svnroot/ph/org/branches/foo/repo \ -m "Create a 'foo' branch of /trunk/repo"

This command resulted in strange 'path not found' error:

svn: '/svnroot/ph/org/!svn/bc/71/branches/foo' path not found

I don't think it is permission problem, as the following command

$ svn copy \ https://svn.example.org/svnroot/ph/org/trunk/repo \ https://svn.example.org/svnroot/ph/org/branches/foo_repo \ -m "Create a 'foo' branch of /trunk/repo"

succeeded

Committed revision 72.

What might be the cause of this problem? How can I work around it?

Subversion server is at version 1.6.19 (r1383947), subversion client is 1.6.17 (r1128011).

Jakub Narębski · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-15 20:23:16Z

By default you can not create intermediate directories on the fly. There is the --parents switch to do this. So the correct command should be:

svn copy --parents \ https://svn.example.org/svnroot/ph/org/trunk/repo \ https://svn.example.org/svnroot/ph/org/branches/foo/repo \ -m "Create a 'foo' branch of /trunk/repo"

Jeanne Boyarsky · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-14 23:34:00Z

When you first create the repository, you ran "svn mkdir branches" to create the branch folder. It stands to reason that you need to run a mkdir command to make foo before you can create a branch to that (currently) non-existant folder. Have you tried that?

Simon Dallow · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-23 15:43:39Z

Make the target directories in working copy, 'add' them, commit, then do the svn copy. Worked for me.

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