Re: Problem to go to older revision that had externals

Holger Schmidt <Holger.Schmidt_at_zmdi.com> writes:

> I have a working copy that includes data from an other repository with
> an svn:externals property. Then I decide to import that data into my
> repository and to remove the external. The following update that
> switches the data from external to local causes trouble in some
> working copies (Removed external is already locked). I tried to
> reproduce this, but run into another issue. To model the update in
> other working copies I switched my working copy to the revision that
> had the externals (svn up -r nnn). This fails with "W155009: Failed
> to run the WC DB work queue" and "E205011: Failure occurred processing
> one or more externals definitions". "svn st -u" says I need to run
> cleanup, but after the cleanup I get the same message from the status
> command. If I update now I get an assertion from
> 'subversion/libsvn_wc/update_editor.c' line 1550.

The failed workqueue happens with trunk as well. I've raised an issue:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4550

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Philip Martin | Subversion Committer
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