Is the present behavior of svn:externals under sparse checkouts right?
What I see (r26847) is that svn:externals directories are only
created when their parent directory is checked out "--depth
infinity". It seems to me that these directories-created-by-
svn:externals are subdirectories, just like the more ordinary ones,
and should be included in "--depth immediates" (at --depth empty, of
course, just like the ordinary ones).
Further, svn:externals presently breaks stickiness, populating (at
depth infinity) from any subsequent, depth-less "svn up", even when
legitimately missing (that is, when the parent checkout was "files"
or "empty"):
$ svn co file:///svn/sparse/trunk sparse --depth files
$ svn stat -v --depth infinity sparse
8 8 jrepenning sparse
8 8 jrepenning sparse/afile
$ svn plist -v sparse
Properties on 'sparse':
svn:externals : ext-whatever file:///svn/sparse/ext
$ cd sparse
$ svn up
Fetching external item into 'ext-whatever'
A ext-whatever/afile
A ext-whatever/sub1
A ext-whatever/sub1/afile
A ext-whatever/sub1/sub2
A ext-whatever/sub1/sub2/sub3
Updated external to revision 8.
Updated to revision 8.
This, of course, is also contrary to the behavior of ordinary
subdirectories.
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