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Re: 1.7RC4 file externals produce errors on updates

From: Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:04:25 +0100

Mothmonsterman <p.e.fletcher_at_gmail.com> writes:

> Should this have been resolved with Issue 4015?
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4015
>
> On Oct 17, 4:30 pm, Mothmonsterman <p.e.fletc..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> same problem here..
>>
>> On Oct 4, 1:10 pm, Rolf Campbell <rcampbell-cyg..._at_dragonwaveinc.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > When I try to update a working view that contains file-externals, I get
>> > an error because the client thinks the external is aversioneditem.
>>
>> > In an attempt to clear the problem, I deleted the file (locally), but
>> > "svn up" restores the file and then complains about itexisting.
>>
>> > Are file-externals supported in v1.7?
>>
>> > $ svn up
>> > Updating '.':
>> > Restored 'lastserial.txt'
>>
>> > Fetching externaliteminto 'lastserial.txt':
>> > svn: warning: W195017: The file external from
>> > 'https://[snip]/trunk/SerialNumbers/lastserial.txt'cannotoverwritetheexistingversionedite mat '/c/[snip]/lastserial.txt'
>>
>> > At revision 3905.
>> > svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions

Difficult to say. Issue 4015 is fixed in 1.7. Are you using rc4? Are
you using a 1.7 checkout, or a 1.6 checkout upgraded to 1.7?

-- 
Philip
Received on 2011-10-24 23:05:03 CEST

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