Re: removing a directory and externals

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 08.12.2014 13:57, Niemann, Hartmut wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >
> >
> > I tried to remove a directory ‘xx’ which contains an “external”
> > sub-workingcopy ‘the\external’.
> >
> > (in the WC in the explorer, using the context menu)
> >
> > I get an alert box
> >
> >
> >
> > Force removal
> >
> > >>D:\abolutepath\to\xx\the\external<< ist nicht unter
> > Versionskontrolle
>
>
> I assume that 'xx\the' are unversioned folders and the external is set
> below those?
> That's not officially supported by svn!
> If you really need an external that's below the folder where you set the
> property, you have to at least add the folders below to svn too.

Are you sure that's not supported? I think this is supported for directory
externals. The SVN book says:

"While directory externals can place the external directory at any depth,
and any missing intermediate directories will be created, file externals
must be placed into a working copy that is already checked out."

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.html
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.advanced.externals.html

Unless I'm misunderstanding, it looks like that's intended to be supported.
I'd be interested in whether the command-line tools also fail in this
scenario.

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Received on 2014-12-08 20:49:39 CET