Dear all,
it would be helpful if someone could reproduce/confirm the behavior. This
would be an important step towards a bug report.
Thanks and best regards,
Christian
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Christian K. <christian.k.2510_at_gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello Bert,
>
> thanks for your reply. From my understanding svn does support
> svn:externals references within the same repository and also that identical
> sub-trees will exist multiple times in the working copy structure (i,e, the
> main wc and the external wc's).
>
> I modified the script to make the sub-trees totally independent. see [1].
> It produces the same error.
>
> The behavior was originally discovered in a real world system. Where
> committing the svn:externals and the updating happens on different systems
> (and therefore independent working copies). So the behavior is also
> unrelated to the fact the the same working copy is used (as in the provided
> example scripts) to commit svn:externals and to update it.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christian
>
> [1]
> rmdir /S /Q repo1
> rmdir /S /Q repo2
> rmdir /S /Q wc1
> rmdir /S /Q wc2
>
> svnadmin create repo1
> svnadmin create repo2
> svn co file:///%CD%/repo1 wc1
> svn co file:///%CD%/repo2 wc2
>
> mkdir wc1\foo
> mkdir wc2\ext
> mkdir wc2\ext\subdir
>
> svn add wc1\foo
> svn add wc2\ext
> svn ci -m "" wc1
> svn ci -m "" wc2
>
> svn ps svn:externals "file:///%CD:\=/%/repo2/ext ext" wc1\foo
> svn ci -m "" wc1
> svn up wc1
>
> svn ps svn:externals "file:///%CD:\=/%/repo2/ext/subdir ext/subdir" wc1\foo
> svn ci -m "" wc1
> svn up wc1
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote:
>
>> You are adding a directory ‘ext’, which makes it a versioned path *
>> *inside** the repository/working copy and then in the parent directory
>> you set a property that it is something **external**.
>>
>>
>>
>> A path can’t be versioned as part of the working copy and be an external
>> at the same time.
>>
>>
>>
>> Once a path is versioned, you can’t shadow it with an external.
>>
>> (Technically externals aren’t in your working copy… they are a higher
>> level abstraction and a working copy by itself)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> As far as I can tell this works as expected.
>>
>>
>>
>> Bert
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Christian K. [mailto:christian.k.2510_at_gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* woensdag 8 april 2015 17:13
>> *To:* users_at_subversion.apache.org
>> *Subject:* Changing external to sub-directory yields W155007 and E205011
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> using svn 1.8.11 changing an existing svn:externals property to a
>> sub-directory thereof will result in an "... is not a working copy root"
>> (combination of W200000, W155007 and E205011). The attached sequence of
>> commands [1] will reproduce the behavior from scratch (Windows batch
>> syntax).
>>
>>
>>
>> The final svn update will result in the attached output [2].
>>
>>
>>
>> Is this regular behavior of svn or is this a bug related to the
>> processing of svn:externals?
>>
>>
>>
>> I would expect that changing the value of svn:externals from something
>> valid to something else valid should be handled by svn.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks and best regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> svnadmin create repo
>>
>> svn co file:///%CD%/repo wc
>>
>>
>>
>> mkdir wc\foo
>>
>> mkdir wc\ext
>>
>> mkdir wc\ext\subdir
>>
>>
>>
>> svn add wc\foo
>>
>> svn add wc\ext
>>
>> svn ci -m "" wc
>>
>>
>>
>> svn ps svn:externals "^/ext ext" wc\foo
>>
>> svn ci -m "" wc
>>
>> svn up wc
>>
>>
>>
>> svn ps svn:externals "^/ext/subdir ext/subdir" wc\foo
>>
>> svn ci -m "" wc
>>
>> svn up wc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [2]
>>
>> Updating 'wc':
>>
>>
>>
>> Fetching external item into 'wc\foo\ext\subdir':
>>
>> External at revision 3.
>>
>>
>>
>> svn: warning: W200000: Error handling externals definition for
>> 'wc\foo\ext\subdir':
>>
>> svn: warning: W155007: 'C:\Temp\wc\foo\ext\subdir' is not a working copy
>> root
>>
>> Removed external 'wc\foo\ext'
>>
>> Updated to revision 3.
>>
>> svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals
>> definitions
>>
>
>
Received on 2015-04-13 21:53:16 CEST