On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Philip Martin
<philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> I am having trouble with the svn copy command. I am running RedHat
>>> Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.3 and svn version 1.6.1
>>> (r934486).
>>
>> Do you have a test environment you'd be willing to test 1.7 or 1.8 on?
>> 1.6.11 is no longer supported.
>
> svnadmin create repo --compatible-version 1.6
> svn import -mm repo/format file://`pwd`/repo/f
> svnmucc -mm propset svn:externals '^/f x' file://`pwd`/repo
> svn co file://`pwd`/repo wc
> echo xx > wc/x
> svn cp -mm wc/x ^/copy
>
> Using 1.6 the copy does nothing and fails to create a revision. Using
> 1.7 the copy causes the client to abort with an assert. Using 1.8 the
> copy creates a new revision.
Sorry about the blank mesage! So in general, perhaps file externals
are simply not working up to your requirements before Subversoin 1.8?
Received on 2015-01-06 05:57:37 CET