Re: svn:externals to older revision of deleted path

On Mar 11, 2009, at 13:05, Alves, Pedro Maia (NSN - PT/Amadora) wrote:

> I have two repositories and in one I have an svn:externals property
> to the other with fixed revision.
> For example I have in on directory of REP1 an svn:externals
> property, to get a directory from REP2, similar to:
>
> -r49 http://REP2/trunk/xpto xpto
>
> Now, I decide that I don't want anymore to have the xpto directory
> and in revision 76 of REP2 I deleted the directory.
> If I don't change the svn:externals property on REP1 I should be
> able to get revision 49 of the xpto directory when I'm checking out
> the directory from REP1 because on revision 49 the directory still
> existed on REP2.
>
> However if I try to check out REP1 I'm getting the following message:
>
> '/svn/REP2/!svn/bc/76/trunk/xpto' path not found
>
> It seams that it is looking for the directory first on the HEAD
> revision (76)

That is correct.

> which doesn't make sense because I want revision 49.
>
> I'm using 1.5.5-SlikSvn-tag-1.5.5_at_34877-WIN32.
>
> Do you think this is a bug on svn?

No, it works as intended.

You need to understand the difference between peg and operative
revisions.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html

You'll see that externals definitions now support both peg and
operative revisions.

http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.5_releasenotes.html#externals

So the correct externals definition now would be

-r49 http://REP2/trunk/xpto@49 xpto

That would definitely work, or possibly it can be shortened to just
specify the peg revision.

http://REP2/trunk/xpto@49 xpto

But I'm never sure if the operative revision defaults to the peg
revision or to HEAD.

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Received on 2009-03-11 19:52:05 CET