Re: svn:externals in an added directory

On Jun 26, 2007, at 17:07, Ryan Schmidt wrote: 

> On Jun 26, 2007, at 09:38, George Stein wrote: 
> 
> > We want to add a new directory with files to subversion. The newly   
> > added 
> > files refers to sources from another URL. So we set svn:externals to 
> > this directory. To ensure that our make works before committing the 
> > changes we need to see the svn:externals. How can we achieve this? 
> 
> > At the moment we have to commit the new directory/files first, then 
> > updating it to resolve the externals, start the make and then commit 
> > changes a second time. So we have two commits for one logical change. 
> > This conflicts with our understanding of a changeset. And   
> > furthermore it 
> > can leave the head of the repository in a not compilable state if the 
>!
 ; > make fails after the first commit. 
> > 
> > This also happens if we merge a branch with a new directory and 
> > svn:externals back to the trunk. So working on a feature branch is no 
> > solution to us. 
>  
> After setting svn:externals, or doing a merge which sets   
> svn:externals, do an svn update. This will retrieve the external   
> files. You don't need to commit first. 

This seems only to be true if you set svn:externals to a previously 
added and committed directory.

For the following use case

$ md new_directory
$ svn add new_directory
$ svn ps svn:externals "ext_dir ext_URL" new_directory
$ svn up new_directory

the svn up doesn't update my new_directory. Could you/anyone verify 
it, please?

Thanks
George