On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 03:54:23AM +0200, André Hänsel wrote:
> I am trying to add an svn:externals definition to a working copy. I set the
> property on a directory and ran svn update on that directory, but nothing is
> fetched.
>
> I found this article:
> http://blogs.gnome.org/johannes/2008/02/20/svnexternals-for-noobs/
> However, from other documentation it's unclear to me if a commit is really
> necessary for svn:external to work. Of course, I don't want to commit an
> untested external definition.
>
> I am using TortoiseSVN 1.6.15 built with Subversion 1.6.16.
With Subversion 1.6, if you put the svn:externals property on a locally
added directory you'll need to commit the directory before 'svn update'
will fetch the externals.
This has been fixed in Subversion 1.7, see:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2267
You can try out a pre-release version of 1.7 if you need this feature ASAP.
http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html#pre-release
If you do so, please help improve the final 1.7.0 release by reporting
any problems you find while using the pre-release version. Thanks!
Received on 2011-08-02 10:17:20 CEST