svn still having problems with UNC pathes on CYGWIN

Roland Schwingel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.eyebrowse.user,gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel
Message-ID <41B6D606.1010708__33041.4569391452$1102501600$gmane$org@onevision.de>
Hi...

A while ago I stumbled across a problem with svn when using it on cygwin 
together with UNC pathes. Yesterday I had the time to sort
it out a bit. What is the problem? Try this on cygwin (fails both on svn 
1.0.x and 1.1.x):

svn info //server/share/path/to/working/copy

This will badly fail with the message
svn: '/server/share/path/to/working/copy' is not a working copy.
(As one can see, there is a leading / missing)

So I debugged in a bit and I think I found the problem. It is 
(un)fortunately in
apr. apr_filepath_merge() does not take care about UNC pathes when compiled
on cygwin (I am using the intree apr). I made a small hack to bypass 
that and now
it appears to work.

Now I have a more logistic problem. How to get this fixed permanently? 
Who shall
I bother with my patch? I think subversion is not the first point here, 
even it occurs
with subversion.

Thanks for any help,

Roland
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