Re: Behaviour of svn:externals under commit

Richard Taylor <r.taylor@eris.qinetiq.com> writes:

> The first question I have is: what should be the behavior of "svn
> commit" when a working copy includes svn:externals specified
> directories?
>
> My experiments suggest that the commit does not traverse the
> "external" directories. Is this the correct behavior? Is there some
> way to get a "svn commit" to be applied to the "external"
> directories.

This is a known bug. Dunno the issue number off-hand, but I think
it's scheduled for fixing in one of the next couple of milestones.

> An added confusion is that "svn update" does correctly apply to the
> externals but "svn status" lists the directories as "?" which is not
> very consistent.

Another known bug, with a similarly milestone issue.

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Received on Fri May 9 10:05:21 2003