RE: possible bugstatus for externals with explicit revision

Hi Philip,

I didn't make myself clear.
I've encounter the problem when using svn1.8+ client and svn1.7+ server.

When I used to work with a svn1.7 client against svn1.7 server there was no mismatch with the externals status comparison.

Can you approve this is a bug within the svn1.8+ client? It only work fine against 1.8+ server?

Thanks,
Tal

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Martin [mailto:philip.martin_at_wandisco.com]
Sent: 12 February 2014 13:07
To: Spiegel Tal
Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: possible bugstatus for externals with explicit revision

Spiegel Tal <Tal.Spiegel_at_elbitsystems.com> writes:

> I'm using in my project externals set to explicit revision.
>
> When using svn1.7+ the command "svn status -v -u" used to check the modification between my w.c. to the externals explicit revision.
>
> When using svn1.8+ the same command checks the modification between my w.c. and the external HEAD revision although my external is not pointing the HEAD revision, it points to a much older revision.
>
> Why did svn change its behavior? is it a bug?

I see a behaviour change but it is the opposite to that you report.
With 1.8 status compares the external to the explict revision:

  $ svnadmin create repo --compatible-version 1.6
  $ svnmucc -mm -U file://`pwd`/repo mkdir A mkdir B \
                                     propset svn:externals '^/A_at_1 A' B
  $ svnmucc -mm -U file://`pwd`/repo propset p v A
  $ svn co file://`pwd`/repo/B wc
  $ svn st -uv wc
  X wc/A
                   2 1 pm wc
  Status against revision: 2

  Performing status on external item at 'wc/A':
                   1 1 pm wc/A
  Status against revision: 1

With 1.7 status compares the external to HEAD:

  $ svn st -uv wc
  X wc/A
                   2 1 pm wc
  Status against revision: 2

  Performing status on external item at 'wc/A':
          * 1 1 pm wc/A
  Status against revision: 2

The reason that 1.7 checks against HEAD is that 1.7 does not record the explict revision in the EXTERNALS table:

  $ sqlite3 wc/.svn/wc.db "select * from externals"
  1|A||1|normal|dir||A||

while 1.8 does:

  $ sqlite3 wc/.svn/wc.db "select * from externals"
  1|A||1|normal|dir||A|1|1

which is a result of r1163438.

I think we would consider this a bug in 1.7.

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