Re: Single file externals and svn:mergeinfo

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:11:02AM -0000, Echlin, Jamie wrote:
> Morning,
>
> I have reproduced the problem discussed here (single file externals
> cause mergeinfo on directories and files containing file externals):
> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-08/0088.shtml in the latest version
> of the 1.6.x branch, which is affecting a repo in our production
> environment.
>
> Reason for the mail is I can't find a bug reference for this, wondered
> if anyone knew?
>

This seems to have been fixed in trunk.
A corresponding test was added in r992114 and it passes.

There hasn't been a backport of this fix, probably because this issue
was fixed as a side-effect of the on-going working copy rewrite.

If getting a fix for this in 1.6.x is important to you, feel free to
file an issue requesting a fix the for 1.6.x branch. Maybe someone
will find time for this. Make sure to link back to this thread in
the mail archives from the issue. Thanks.

> Appears to me that this makes single file externals pretty much a
> non-starter if you also use branching/merging... is that fair to say?

File externals have a lot of problems and should probably not have been
released as-is in 1.6.0. We're trying to fix most of those problems for 1.7.
Received on 2011-03-15 12:55:20 CET