RE: svn 1.7 client issues error on update of single file externals

Bump. Has anyone observed the below issue, where subversion 1.7.x client issues an error when using 'svn update' on folders containing single file svn:externals? Note that subversion does indeed update the externals, it marely issues an error.

Any response is appreciated!

Best regards,
Åsmund B. BØ

Texas Instruments Norway AS, Gaustadalléen 21, NO-0349 Oslo, Norway. Org. NO 980499480 MVA

-----Original Message-----
From: Boe, Aasmund
Sent: 24. juli 2012 08:53
To: 'users_at_subversion.apache.org'
Subject: svn 1.7 client issues error on update of single file externals

Using subversion 1.7(.5), updating a working copy that has single file svn:externals results in an error, even if the update does indeed work.
Bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Details posted on stackoverflow.com (before I was aware of this mailing list):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11615043/subversion-client-1-7-file-externals-update-error

And the content of the above url:
I have come across an error using svn update on a working copy folder with single file svn:externals. I wonder if there is a work-around for this, if I am doing something wrong, or if this is a bug in the client 1.7.x of subversion.

The error occurs when calling svn update using subversion 1.7.5 (tried TortoiseSvn 1.7.7 and slikSvn 1.7.5) on a folder that has single file svn:externals. I'm tempted to say it's a bug in the subversion client, because the update does indeed occur, but it says it fails.

For reference, the server side uses a very old version (1.1.4 [r13838]), but from what I know externals is a client "feature" so an old server should not be a problem. Besides, this workes well using subversion 1.6.x (client).

This is the scenario I observe:

1. Checkout a project (that has single file svn:externals)
   svn checkout http://my/repo/projects/proj1 proj1

2. Browsing to the folder in my working copy with single file svn:externals.
   E.g.
   myFile.txt http://my/repo/components/comp1/myFile.txt

3. Executing svn update and I get the following output:
   Fetching external item into 'trunk\proj1\source\myFile.txt':
   : warning: W160016: Failure opening
   '/components/comp1/myFile.txt/myFile.txt'

If change the svn:externals so that the local file has a different name, like below:
   my_file.txt http://my/repo/components/comp1/myFile.txt

Then the error message in 3. becomes as below, so the the file after the last
forward slash ('/') is the local version of the file.

   Fetching external item into 'trunk\proj1\source\myFile.txt':
   : warning: W160016: Failure opening
   '/components/comp1/myFile.txt/my_file.txt'

Best regards,
Aasmund B. Boe
Received on 2012-08-28 08:18:25 CEST