On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Olivier Sannier <obones_at_free.fr> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Let's say we have the following repository:
>
> /trunk
> /trunk/bin
> /trunk/sources/report_engine/models
>
> and an external on bin defined as the following:
>
> ../sources/report_engine/models models
>
> so when I checkout trunk, I get a copy of
> /trunk/sources/report_engine/models inside the bin/models folder.
> This is very convenient to have "symbolic links" inside a repository.
>
> Now I do this:
> svn cp /trunk /branches/test
>
> then I modify a file inside /trunk/sources/report_engine/models and commit
> it.
> Finally, I want to work on the branch and switch my working copy to it:
>
> svn switch /branches/test .
>
> While it updates my working copy to match all the changes made into the
> branch, it never updates bin/models to represent the content of
> /branches/test/sources/report_engine/models
>
> I reread the svn book and it is not clear to me whether or not svn switch is
> supposed to update a relative external.
> To me it would be quite logical that it would, hence my surprise when I saw
> the above behavior. Could it be that I missed something obvious?
I think this is a known bug. See
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3390
It was recently fixed and proposed for backport to 1.6.x. It will
probably, hopefully, most likely, ... be included in 1.6.10.
Johan
Received on 2010-02-22 15:40:34 CET