Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

On Jul 9, 2010, at 14:08, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> The allowable syntax for svn:externals is a bit unclear in the Redbook.
>
> Shouldn't I be able to set the svn:external to point to a location in
> my active repository, such as the below settings?
>
> svn propset svn:externals "release-1 ^/tags/release-1" .
>
> I seem to be able to set such values, but updating with such values
> fails miserably with the subversino-1.6.12, published from RPMforge on
> RHEL 5 (for reference to the version I'm using).

Try

   svn propset svn:externals "^/tags/release-1 release-1" .
Received on 2010-07-09 22:20:51 CEST