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Re: Update failed with "is not a working copy" message on externals

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:30:55 -0500

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 05:14, Giulio Troccoli
<Giulio.Troccoli_at_uk.linedata.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are starting using externals to publish some documentation for our customer. The repository contains test files and documentation about the testing. Some of these files and docs need to be made available to our customer. So I thought of creating a Public folder and define the svn:external property to pull down only the bits that we need.
>
> As part of the process however we decided to also reorganise the documents, especially because some of the original file are buried into 5 or more directories. An example of svn:external would be
>
> ^/api/5.31/Completed%20Projects%20(non-iTest%20docs)/5.11.23 5.31/5.11.23
>
> This works very well, creating the 5.31 and 5.11.23 directories. However, if we want to pull down a single file, e.g.
>
> ^/api/5.31/Completed%20Projects%20(non-iTest%20docs)/basic%20data%20cleansing/End%20To%20End%20_basic%20data%20cleansing.xls "5.31/basic data cleansing/End To End _basic data cleansing.xls"
>
> then svn update fails with the message
>
> Fetching external item into '5.31\basic data cleansing\End To End _basic data cleansing.xls'
> svn: warning: '5.31\basic data cleansing' is not a working copy
>
> I thought I couldn't pull down a single file but only directories but the manual says I can, and if I change the external as
>
> ^/api/5.31/Completed%20Projects%20(non-iTest%20docs)/basic%20data%20cleansing/End%20To%20End%20_basic%20data%20cleansing.xls "End To End _basic data cleansing.xls"
>
> then the file is retrieved.
>
> I have looked in the archive and the only related message I found is a very old one about subversion 1.2.3 http://svn.haxx.se/tsvnusers/archive-2005-12/0068.shtml
>
> So, it seems to me this is a bug. I was able to write a little ksh script (attached) to reproduced the problem.

Not only does it seem like a bug, it seems like this one.
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3368
Received on 2010-03-03 12:31:51 CET

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