Both fixed in revision 2619.
It is completely mysterious that this did, at the time I implemented
it, work.  Was the 2619 code in there, and somehow got lost between
my testing and my commit?  Dunno.
I'm writing a regression test right now.
-K
Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> 1.  as Peter points out, 'svn up' right after setting the property
>     does nothing at all... the externals aren't checked out.
>
> 2.  If I check out a module, I end up with a few 'external'
>     subdirectories.  I'm aware that they aren't directly linked with
>     the root working copy.  But still, when I run 'svn up' at the top
>     of my working copy, the update *never* happens in the external
>     subdirs.  Your first response might be, "yes, well, the subdirs
>     aren't linked, so the update never recurses in there."  But this
>     seems like a silly cop-out to me;  why aren't we just running a
>     sequence of updates?  It's so easy for 'svn up' to notice the
>     svn:externals property when it first starts, and have it queue up
>     a separate update for each external.  And in my mind, this is how
>     a "working copy that's aware it's a module" should behave.  
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Received on Mon Jul 22 04:24:31 2002