'svn cleanup' ignores externals

From: Kuno Meyer <kuno.meyer_at_gmx.ch>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:31:33 +0000 (UTC)

Is it by design that 'svn cleanup' ignores externals and that there is no way to
include them?

I found it a bit inconsistent that 'working copy' has different meanings for
'svn update' and 'svn cleanup'.

Kuno

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$>svn help update
update (up): Bring changes from the repository into the working copy.

$>svn help cleanup
cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming

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$> svn up <wc_root>

Fetching external item into '<some_other_path>':
svn: warning: W155037: Previous operation has not finished; run 'cleanup' if it
was interrupted

At revision 62460.
svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions

$> svn cleanup <wc_root>

$> svn up <wc_root>

Fetching external item into '<some_other_path>':
svn: warning: W155037: Previous operation has not finished; run 'cleanup' if it
was interrupted

At revision 62460.
svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions
Received on 2012-04-16 12:32:20 CEST