update --depth=empty ignored since 1.7

Dear list,

I'm experiencing some weird behaviour with SVN 1.7. The following
sequence of commands fails to respect --depth=empty:
   svn co --depth=empty http://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/metapost
   svn up --depth=empty metapost/tags

(you can use 'anonymous' as a username) The first command runs fine,
but the second one starts fetching all tags. If I try to open
repository in web browser, it reports that the server is using SVN
1.4.2 (r22196) which is a bit old, but with SVN 1.6.16 the same
sequence of commands worked fine - depth=empty seems to be respected.
I cannot reproduce the behaviour with
    http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion
where the same commands work just fine.

Is this a bug in SVN client 1.7.(0/1) or my misunderstanding of how
the above commands are supposed to work? I noticed that some
depth=empty-related issues are mentioned in changelog for 1.7.1, but
subversion 1.7.1 as shipped with MacPorts on Mac OS X 10.7 doesn't
seem to behave any differently.

Thank you very much,
   Mojca
Received on 2011-10-28 13:05:32 CEST