What version of the Subversion client & server are you using?
Eric
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Dalton, Bill (GE Energy Connections) <
Bill.Dalton_at_ge.com> wrote:
> We have projects which share some of the files in the subversion folders
> but not all. So, those projects put their files into separate folders.
> One of the pairs of folders contains the actual files. The other folder of
> the pair has subversion links which point to the actual files in the other
> folder. This strategy seems to work with only one very important
> exception. When the folder with the links is checked out, the actual
> files always return the HEAD version, ignoring the “rev=” parameter.
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> Specifically, there are two folder in Subversion whose paths are
> “trunk/firmware/cpu_fw/dia” and “trunk/firmware/cpu_fw_vx7/dia”. Most of
> the files in the cpu_fw_vx7/dia folder (that is, all of the shared files)
> are links which point to the corresponding file in the cpu_fw/dia folder.
> If the cpu_fw_vx7/dia folder is updated with a “svn update -r 17905
> –non-interactive –force svnRepos/trunk/firmware/cpu_fw_vx7/dia” command,
> it will always fetch the HEAD revision, instead of the 17905 revision.
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Received on 2017-01-24 22:40:27 CET