Re: SVN 1.7 cannot add symlinks that reference a directory which is an svn external

On Jan 16, 2012, at 23:52 , Evan Wee wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have the following issue:
>
> SVN cannot add symlinks that reference a directory which is an svn external.
>
> We have these directories in SVN inside a parent directory:
>
> DirectoryA
> DirectoryB
> Code_Framework
>
> Code_Framework has the svn:external property pointing to another location "1.2.3 http://svn/parent2/3partycode/1.2.3"
>
> We check out parent directory and add a symlink S1 to reference "Code_Framework/1.2.3".
> This is fine.
>
> However, when we try to add S1, we get:
> svn: warning: W150002: '/Users/evanw/Projects/test/parent/1.2.3' is already under version control
> svn: E200009: Could not add all targets because some targets are already versioned
> svn: E200009: Illegal target for the requested operation
>
> When we try to check it in, we get:
> svn: E145001: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: E145001: Entry '/Users/evanw/Projects/test/parent/1.2.3' has unexpectedly changed special status
>
>
>
> This operation works in SVN 1.6.x client, but not 1.7.2. We just upgraded to SVN 1.7.2 for our client and our server is still on 1.6.10. We are on a Mac platform. SVN was installed via MacPorts.
>
> Is this change intentional?

No, it's a bug in 1.7.x. It looks like a variant of the recently reported
issue #4091 "error replacing executable with symlink".

  http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4091

Regards,
Steve

>
> Evan Wee
> [Build]
> Email/AIM: evanw_at_nationalfibre.net
>
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