"Sander van der Wal" <svdwal@mBrainSoftware.com> wrote on 08/28/2006
10:07:25 AM:
> I have a problem with a project that uses an svn:externals property
>
> In a single repository (I am just testing things out) there is a project
and
> a sharedproject
>
> the folder layout is
>
> project
> trunk
> doc
> group
> sharedproject
> src
> sharedproject
> trunk
> doc
> group
> src
>
> the idea is that project/trunk/sharedproject links to sharedproject
using
> svn:externals. So there is a svn:externals property on project/trunk,
with
> the value "sharedproject svn://host/test/sharedproject". The property
has
> been set using TortoiseSVN.
>
> According to the manual, a svn update on 'project' should read
> sharedprojects folders and files into the project/sharedproject folder
in
> the sandbox. This is not happening, however. I see a
>
> svn:Working copy 'sharedproject' locked
> svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks(type...)
>
> Ok, so I run svn cleanup and svn update again, and I get the same error.
I
> have not locked sharedproject myself, and I haven't touched the svn
> configuration so I woudl expect that there were no locks. svn status
doesn't
> say anything about locks either.
It sounds like you created an actual folder in your repository named
"sharedproject" that is under "project/trunk". There should not be one.
svn:externals will create it for you in the working copy.
Mark
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Received on Mon Aug 28 17:17:23 2006