On Aug 21, 2007, at 01:50, Khang K Tran wrote:
> On 8/20/07, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Aug 20, 2007, at 14:19, Khang K Tran wrote:
>>
>> > my question has to do with using svn diff ( v1.4.3) in the presence
>> > of externally linked files. here's an example of my repo:
>> >
>> > - trunk
>> > - core
>> > - modules
>> > - branches
>> > - test1
>> > - core (svn:externals points to trunk's core folder)
>> > - modules
>> >
>> > let's say i check out test1 and make a change to the file foo.c in
>> > core. from the top of my sandbox, i type "svn diff core/foo.c" and
>> > i can see the diff, everything's fine. however, if i just type
>> > "svn diff" without specifying foo.c (that is, i'm relying on the
>> > default recursive behavior), then nothing shows up. it ignores the
>> > diff in the core folder completely. this seems to only be the case
>> > with external files because diffs in the branch-local modules
>> > folder show up fine in both uses of svn diff.
>> >
>> > any ideas? is this known behavior? i wasn't able to find anything
>> > on this in the issues mailing list.
>>
>> The behavior is expected. If you have changes in the external
>> directory, you must commit them in the external directory. If you
>> have changes outside of the main working copy, you must commit them
>> there. If you have changes in both places, you must commit twice.
>>
>> See the book:
>>
>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.externals.html
>>
>> "The support that exists for externals definitions in Subversion is
>> less than ideal, though. ... [T]he working copies created via the
>> externals definition support are still disconnected from the primary
>> working copy (on whose versioned directories the svn:externals
>> property was actually set). And Subversion still only truly operates
>> on non-disjoint working copies. So, for example, if you want to
>> commit changes that you've made in one or more of those external
>> working copies, you must run svn commit explicitly on those working
>> copies—committing on the primary working copy will not recurse into
>> any external ones."
>
> so, is there any way to coerce svn into working that way? ;-)
I think you would need to fix these bugs:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1167
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2793
Related:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2325
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Received on Tue Aug 21 10:06:38 2007