"Bert Huijben" <bert_at_qqmail.nl> writes:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Noorul Islam K M [mailto:noorul_at_collab.net]
>> Sent: maandag 30 mei 2011 12:17
>> To: Subversion
>> Subject: Bug in exporting externals?
>>
>>
>> While working on issue 3799, in one of the review comments julianf said
>> the following about number 10 test in external_tests.py.
>>
>> <quote>
>> A/B/gamma is only an external: it does not appear in the WC until
>> Subversion processes the external definitions.
>>
>> It looks to me like that failure was showing us a bug. If I run the
>> test, without your patch, in verbose mode, I see:
>>
>> CMD: svn export svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10
>> svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export [...]
>> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A
>> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A/B
>> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A/B/lambda
>> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A/B/gamma
>> [...]
>> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A/B/gamma
>> [...]
>> CMD: svn export --ignore-externals
>> svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10
>> svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export [...]
>> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A
>> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A/B
>> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A/B/lambda
>> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A/B/gamma
>> [...]
>>
>> There is a comment in the test about --ignore-externals not ignoring
>> A/B/gamma. That's a bug. And the first export (without
>> --ignore-externals) is also buggy. It shouldn't export A/B/gamma twice.
>>
>> We shouldn't just quietly tweak the test to hide the bug. We should
>> write a new test specifically to check for that bug, or fix the bug, or
>> file an issue, or write to the dev@ list about it. Something.
>>
>> - Julian
>> </quote>
>>
>> I tried to re-create this out of test environment and I came up with a
>> reproduction script which is attached.
>>
>> Here I have a repository with the following files
>>
>> A/B/lambda
>> A/D/gamma
>>
>> Along with this I have an external set on A/B as
>>
>> "^/A/D/gamma gamma"
>>
>> Now while exporting the working copy. A/B/gamma is exported twice which
>> looks like a bug and while exporting the WC with --ignore-externals
>> A/B/gamma is exported once which also seems to be a bug since A/B/gamma
>> is an external.
>>
>> I can go ahead and create an issue for this if people can confirm this.
>
> A/B/gamma is a file external. And as such it is also threated as part of the
> working copy itself.
>
> We export it again as an external later, but the original problem is that it
> is just a versioned file in a versioned directory.
>
Is this the expected behaviour?
Thanks and Regards
Noorul
Received on 2011-05-30 14:02:14 CEST