Re: Copy with externals, then commit fails

Bob Archer wrote on Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 13:32:18 -0500:
> File externals require that the file being pointed to is in the same
> working copy as the external of it. From the docs:
>
> "While directory externals can place the external directory at any
> depth, and any missing intermediate directories will be created, file
> externals must be placed into a working copy that is already checked
> out."
>

This quoted part talks about where the pointer will be created, not
about where the pointed-to file should live. (Currently the only
restriction on that is that it should be in the same repository as the
svn:externals property.)

> BOb
>
Received on 2011-02-04 01:41:51 CET