RE: Problem, svn upgrade & externals & svn status (1.6 --> 1.7)

Subversion 1.7.7 and later automatically upgrade all working copies
referenced from svn:externals properties too.

For older clients can use 'svn upgrade' on the externals itself.

                Bert

From: Johan Holmberg [mailto:johan556_at_gmail.com]
Sent: woensdag 19 juni 2013 13:12
To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: Problem, svn upgrade & externals & svn status (1.6 --> 1.7)

Hi!

I have just started using the Subversion client 1.7.5 (I used 1.6.17
previously). To be able to use my old working copies I had to do a "svn
upgrade". But after the upgrade, the svn:externals are no longer fully
recognized. The "svn status" command no longer "recurses into sub-projects"
the way it used to. The difference can be seen by:

-----------------------------
$ svn status proj1
X proj1/proj2-subdir
$
$ svn status proj1-new
X proj1-new/proj2-subdir

Performing status on external item at 'proj1-new/proj2-subdir':
-----------------------------

"proj1" is the old working copy with "svn upgrade" applied. "proj1-new" is a
fresh checkout of the project with the new client version. I have looked
around in the ".svn" directory of the projects and found a difference that
perhaps explains the difference i behaviour:

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$ sqlite3 proj1/.svn/wc.db 'select * from EXTERNALS order by local_relpath'

1|proj2-subdir||1|normal|unknown||||
$
$ sqlite3 proj1-new/.svn/wc.db 'select * from EXTERNALS order by
local_relpath'
1|proj2-subdir||1|normal|dir||proj2||
-----------------------------

Note that the upgraded working copy has the externals entry marked
"unknown".

Is what I describe here a known problem of the "svn upgrade" command?

I also wonder if there is some way to get my existing working copies fully
functional again without doing a new checkout.

/Johan Holmberg
Received on 2013-06-19 13:52:15 CEST