title: Creating a Subversion branch
body: <p>I have a Subversion repository (running SVN 1.6.6) on an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29" rel="nofollow">Ubuntu</a> Linux server, and I'm trying to create a branch using the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TortoiseSVN" rel="nofollow">TortoiseSVN</a> GUI; However, I get an error back:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>COPY c:\work\repositoryWorkingcopy\ to <a href="http://svnserver/svn/repository/Oct13" rel="nofollow">http://svnserver/svn/repository/Oct13</a>, Revision HEAD</p>
    
    <p>Error
    '/svn/repository/!svn/bc/234/branches'
    path not found</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I logged into my Linux box to see if the "branches" folder was NOT available. However, I could see that /var/svn/repository/branches existed.</p>
  
  <p>So, what's the problem and how do I fix it?</p>
  
  <p>I tried the following command (as per <a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s02.html#svn-ch-4-sect-2.1" rel="nofollow">http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s02.html#svn-ch-4-sect-2.1</a>) as well as from the command line and got a similar error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>c:\workingcopy&gt; svn copy http://reposerver/svn/repository/ http://reposerver/svn/repository/branches/BFI_Oct13/ -m "Creating a branch"
  </code></pre>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>svn: '/svn/repository/!svn/bc/235/branches' path not found</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>What should I do?</p>
  
  <p>Also, <code>svn info</code> on the main directory of the working copy gives the following information.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Path: .
  URL: http://reposerver/svn/myrepository
  Repository Root: http://reposerver/svn/myrepository
  Repository UUID: 7a31d3c0-b288-4695-aecd-3f9dda2861ab
  Revision: 235
  Node Kind: directory
  Schedule: normal
  Last Changed Author: anjan
  Last Changed Rev: 235
  Last Changed Date: 2010-10-13 20:39:31 +0530 (Wed, 13 Oct 2010)
  </code></pre>