Re: File externals cannot be removed

2009/3/4 Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>:

Doh! Missed the obvious one.

The subject "can't remove uncommittted added file external" is
inaccurate; as Marc Haesen points out the removal is not possible even
after commit. So a file external can never be removed from a working
copy without making a fresh checkout. Not a 1.6.0 blocker, but it is
fairly nasty behaviour.

Simon

> Is it issue #3351?
>
> Simon Large wrote on Wed, 4 Mar 2009 at 00:36 -0000:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Just testing the new file externals as documented in the 1.6 release
>> notes and I don't seem to be able to delete a file external once it is
>> set. This is with the TortoiseSVN nightly build commandline client,
>> which is built against the head of the SVN 1.6.x branch.

<snip recipe>

>> Now I have no svn:external property set, but the file external is
>> still there and cannot be deleted. Manual deletion fails because svn
>> up restores it. svn rm doesn't work for externals.
>>
>> Committing after adding the svn:externals doesn't help, nor does
>> committing after deleting it. The only fix seems to be a fresh
>> checkout. Am I missing something obvious?

-- 
:       ___
:  oo  // \\      "De Chelonian Mobile"
: (_,\/ \_/ \     TortoiseSVN
:   \ \_/_\_/>    The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control
:   /_/   \_\     http://tortoisesvn.net
------------------------------------------------------
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=1268936