[TSVN] Trapping yourself with externals

Hi Folks,

A colleague of mine ran into an interesting problem today with his use of
externals.

His repository is set up in a way that it contains several main projects
plus several library projects, say:

Trunk/lib1
Trunk/lib2
Trunk/main1
Trunk/main2

His libraries are referenced as externals from inside his main project(s),
so when he checks out trunk/main1, he gets a WC like:

Main1/doc
Main1/src
Main1/src/lib1 (external pointing to trunk/lib1)
Main1/src/lib2 (external pointing to trunk/lib2)

If he now changes somthing inside src *and* inside lib1 and tries to commit
main1, TortoiseSVN fills the commit dialog with all changes *without* a
warning that there are changes in externals which should be committed
separately.

The commit fails with two different error messages. Both are written from
memory, so I don't have the exact text at hand.
Either: "the versioned ressource does not correspond... " (most of the time
it's "src"), "...update your working copy"
Or (haven't seen this one myself): "... Please run cleanup"

Committing the externals (lib1) first and the other changes (src) afterwards
works as usual.

I think the reason for the failure is that the externals point to the same
repository as the main source, but to a different location in the tree.
Probably TSVN calculates a wrong base path for the commit.

Cheers
- Lübbe

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