Problem with svn:externals

Hi,

We are in the progress of migrating from cvs to svn. I am looking at the
svn:externals as an alternative for cvs modules file.

It seemed to work pretty much as expected, except for the following
scenario.

I have folder-A, on which svn externals is set in such a way that when
folder-A is checked out, it would check out folder-B, folder-C and
folder-D inside folder-A.

$ svn co <url>/Folder-A
A Folder-A
A Folder-A/Folder-B
A Folder-A/Folder-C
A Folder-A/Folder-D

$ cd Folder-A

when i edit any of the file in Folder-B and do a svn ci from Folder-A,
it works as expected. However, when i do changes in files in Folder-B,
Folder-C and Folder-D, and then when i do a svn ci from Folder-A, the
check-in does not happen.

`svn status` would state files in Folder-B, Folder-C and Folder-D are
modified. But the commit from Folder-A would not work as expected.

So, my requirement here is that when i do a `svn ci` from Folder-A, i
want all the changes in Folder-B, Folder-C and Folder-D to be
checked-in.

Is this a problem with svn:externals, or is there any workaround for
this issue?

Regards,
Dinesh G
Received on Sat Dec 1 02:20:59 2007