Re: Renaming and replacing files referenced by svn:externals (in the same repository) breaks all working copies :(

Michael Schierl wrote on Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 20:26:18 +0200:
> [ Please CC: me since I am not subscribed to the list. Thank you. ]
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to report what I think is a bug in SVN 1.6.16.
>

Thanks for the detailed bug report. I haven't looked at all the details
in your post yet, but one thing stood out:

> svn: warning: The file external from 'file:///tmp/repo/original/COPYING'
> cannot overwrite the existing versioned item at 'linked/COPYING'

I routinely get the same warning in my working copy of the ASF
Infrastructure repository, where the problem is a file external that
points at a mirror URL of the repository which is different to the
mirror URL I am using. (I use svn.eu.apache.org and the external points
to svn-master.apache.org.)

It causes 'svn up' to always have a non-zero exit code, but the update
otherwise finishes successfully.
Received on 2011-04-08 08:54:26 CEST