Revive svn+http(s) URLs support (issue94) Telling svn from mercurial repository automatically is not always possible, or at least not seamlessly. Let 'http://repo.com/svn' be an svn repository, protected with basic authentication. Trying to clone it directly does something like: 1- Open it like a mercurial repository: * send between command, ask for credentials, fail * fallback to static-http, ask for crendentials two times, fail 2- Open it like an svn repository Mercurial [auth] facility is helpful here, but few people know about it, and it may seem weird to store svn credentials in mercurial configuration. An svn-like password manager would not help either because all connections attempts in [1] fail and it's unlikely we would store credentials in this situation. Instead, we can clone 'svn+http://repo.com/svn', which will skip step [1].

#!/bin/sh
mkdir temp
cd temp
svnadmin create repo
svn co file://`pwd`/repo wc
cd wc
mkdir branches trunk tags
svn add *
svn ci -m 'btt'
cd trunk
mkdir narf
cd narf
for a in alpha beta gamma delta ; do
    echo $a > $a
done
cd ..
svn add narf
svn ci -m 'Add files.'
cd ../../..
svnadmin dump temp/repo > file_not_in_trunk_root.svndump
echo
echo 'Complete.'
echo 'You probably want to clean up temp now.'
echo 'Dump in file_not_in_trunk_root.svndump'
exit 0