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Re: TortoiseSVN 1.8 svn:externals to another repository don't work anymore.

From: Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:11:17 -0500

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:15 AM, ###GDPR_REMOVED###
<###GDPR_REMOVED###_at_philips.com> wrote:
> I just upgraded TortoiseSVN from version 1.7 to version 1.8 and now my
> svn:externals to another repository don’t work anymore.
>
> My svn:externals are defined in the properties and looks like this:
>
> https://pww.trac.philips.com/svn/SenseoSoftwareCommonModules/tags/BitDebounce-Ver0013-20130603/include/bdb_bitdebounce.h
> ExternModules/include/bdb_bitdebounce.h
>
> When I update my externals I get the following error:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\nly40179\My Documents\_svn
> work\01-Code\ExternModules\include\bdb_bitdebounce.h
>
> Unsupported external: URL of file external
>

File externals to another repository were never intended to be
supported (by the SVN command-line tools and library). The fact that
they worked in 1.6.x and up to some version of 1.7 was an accident.

See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.html
which says specifically "A file external's URL must always be in the
same repository as the URL that the file external will be inserted
into".

I ran into this same problem when upgrading a 1.6.x client to a 1.7.7
client. The SVN mailing list basically told me I was out of luck. We
modified our externals, makefiles, project files, etc. to pull in full
directories.

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