RE: issue with relative externals after a rename

I have a tree that looks like:

https://svn/repo/name1/externs/normal_files_here

The folder "externs" has two external properties:
../fold1_at_18 fold1
../fold2/file1.txt_at_18 file1.txt

These folders and file exist at rev 18. The commit to add the properties to "externs" is commit 32.

I then do a rename of "name1" to "name2".

The externs now break, as the item they were pointing to no longer exists. So I edit the properties to:
-r 18 ../fold1 fold1
-r 18 ../fold2/file1.txt file1.txt

And then did an update and the file got brought in, but there was still an error on the folder.

However, I just repeated the issue on a test repo and it worked fine for both the folder and the file, so maybe there's some other condition that's affecting it.

Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Corveleyn [mailto:jcorvel_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 1:49 AM
To: Jonathan Schell <JSchell_at_innoflight.com>
Cc: Subversion Users <users_at_subversion.apache.org>; Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2018_at_ryandesign.com>
Subject: Re: issue with relative externals after a rename

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2018_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 26, 2018, at 17:20, Jonathan Schell wrote:
>
>> I have a tree where one folder is referencing some other folders and documents in different parts of the tree. And those externals are pegged.
>>
>> So, I did a rename of the top folder of the tree. Which of course breaks the externals.
>>
>> So, I go fix the externals to be like they should, using the operative revision. This works for the files, but not for the folders.
>
> In what way does it not work? What did you do, what happened, what was supposed to happen instead?

Also, to make sure we're on the same page:
Are you using the following syntax (relative and with peg revisions) in the externals property?

    ../../somedir_at_1234 somedir
    ../../somefile_at_3214 somefile

Or are you using this syntax (with operative revisions instead of peg revisions)?

    -r1234 ../../somedir somedir
    -r3214 ../../somefile somefile

Or perhaps a mix of both?

--
Johan