Re: zombie external

On 10/11/2011 2:53 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> 2011/10/11 Cory Riddell <cory_at_codeware.com>:
>> I have a working copy that insists it has an external but I can't figure
>> out why.
>>
>> "svn propget svn:externals -R wc" returns no results.
>> "svn status wc" reports this:
>> " X wc\util.lib"
>>
>> How do I reconcile what's going on here? When I do "svn update wc" it
>> just hangs.
> What version of svn?
>
> Delete "wc\util.lib" and try again?
The server is 1.6.13.

If I delete that file and do svn update, it just comes back. This is the
part that has me most confused because the directory does not have any
svn:externals properties on it (but it used to).

When I do an update, what directs the svn client to pull the external
file? It has to be something in the .svn directory, right?

> If you do not have any local changes in wc then you may delete wc as a
> whole and let svn up recreate it.
>

Yes, this is ultimately what I'm going to have to do. Unfortunately,
this has happened more than once and I'd really like to understand
what's going on.

Cory
Received on 2011-10-12 16:29:48 CEST