title: Possible to force SVN to consider a directory a working copy?
body: <p>I'm trying to resolve <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29907387/how-do-i-point-at-our-new-svn-repository-with-an-svn-client-like-tortoisesvn/29922533#29922533">this puzzle</a> and I'm starting to think the problem isn't that SVN clients can't resolve the path to the repository, it's that the repository isn't a working copy.</p>
  
  <p>Summary of original problem:  I'm migrating from an old Bitnami Trac Stack on an Ubuntu VM to a current native Windows <a href="https://bitnami.com/stack/trac" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bitnami Trac Stack</a> <strong><em>on the same server</em></strong>.  I used backups made with hotcopy from the Ubuntu SVN repositories so theoretically they're "indistinguishable" from the those.  </p>
  
  <p>However, I am unable to view the new SVN repositories in an external client like TortoiseSVN, but I can view the repositories in Trac.  Any command that I run at the command line tells me that the repository I'm trying to work with "is not a working copy".</p>
  
  <p>If I point TortoiseSVN at <code>//sbeut01:8001/svn/RnD</code> (which theoretically is a valid repository) it errors gracefully with: <code>//sbeut01:8001/svn/RnD is not a working copy</code></p>
  
  <p>How can I make the repositories on the Windows Trac/subversion instance working copies?  Or does that appear to be the actual problem as opposed to my original question referred to above?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24332416/make-a-directory-a-working-copy-without-checkout">SO Question that didn't resolve the problem</a></p>
  
  <p><strong><em>Edit:</em></strong>  I thought I'd try to just make a brand new repository using the Windows Trac/subversion instance, and then see if I could see <em>that</em> instance from a remote svn client or even the local copy.  However, if I try to do a <code>svn mkdir c:\test</code>, I get the same error, <code>c:\test is not a working copy</code>.  I'm not sure what to make of that.  I also tried to do the same with <code>svnadmin create c:\test</code>, with the same results.</p>
  
  <p><strong><em>2nd Edit</em></strong>  It turned out that there actually was a working copy, I was just looking in the wrong place for it.  The eventual right answer was:</p>
  
  <p><code>svn://[IP address]:3691/Bitnami/Repos/RnD</code></p>
  
  <p>8001 was the Apache port that Trac uses to view a web enabled version of the repository, 3691 is the SVN port from when I first set up the Windows Bitnami Trac Stack</p>