Svn caret notation not working on WinXP

Question

Quote from SVN manual:

In Subversion 1.6, a new caret (^) notation was introduced as a shorthand for “the URL of the repository's root directory”. For example, you can use the ^/tags/bigsandwich/ to refer to the URL of the /tags/bigsandwich directory in the root of the repository. Note that this URL syntax works only when your current working directory is a working copy—the command-line client knows the repository's root URL by looking at the working copy's metadata. Also note that when you wish to refer precisely to the root directory of the repository, you must do so using ^/ (with the trailing slash character), not merely ^.

But when I run:

C:\Svn_Working_Copies\Test1\branches\ver_1_0\Project1>svn log ^/

On my WinXP workstation, using svn version 1.7, where Test1 is a working copy of an svn repository I get the following error:

svn: E155007: 'C:\' is not a working copy

What's going on?

Answer 1

The caret is an escape character for your windows command line. Use a double caret (i.e. ^^) instead.