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-If you are reading this file you have probably just seen an error like
-this after updating:
-
-svn: URL 'svn://svn.insecure.org/nping' of existing directory 'nping'
-does not match expected URL 'svn://svn.insecure.org/nmap/nping'
-
-This is caused by the replacement of SVN externals.
-
-Here's what you need to do. First, save any local changes you might have
-in the nping, nsock, nbase, ncat, and zenmap directories. (For example
-by running "cd nping; svn diff > ../nping.diff".) If you don't have any
-local changes you can skip this step.
-
-Then run these commands:
-
-rm -rf nping/ nsock/ nbase/ ncat/ zenmap/
-svn update
-svn cleanup
-
-If all else fails, you can just delete your whole working directory and
-check out anew:
-
-svn co --username guest --password "" svn://svn.insecure.org/nmap
-
-There may be further discussion in the mailing list thread at
-http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q4/303.