Re: File externals, 1.5 client, and 1.7 client: dies with with "In file 'subversion/libsvn_wc/adm_ops.c' line 2343: assertion failed (external_repos_relpath != NULL)"

Bert Huijben wrote on Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 22:21:55 +0200:
> As noted on IRC, I fixed the assertion in r965523. But note that this
> doesn't make the scenario work as libsvn_wc can't determine if two different
> urls point to the same repository.
>

Thanks.

> I would recommend using repository relative urls for file externals, until
> we have a new and proper design on how we want to handle file externals.
>

Well, in this case the file external is used to pull configuration from
svn.us.a.o to svn.eu.a.o, so a repos-relative URL might not have the same
semantics.

(My workaround was to relocate that dir in my wc to svn.us.)

> Bert
>
Received on 2010-07-20 22:20:30 CEST