I tried to create a new branch of a trunk that had some svn:externals
definition.
In particular, it pointed to a file.
I.e.
/somewhere/a.txt@4 a.txt
I used
svn copy svn://server/trunk branch
And the output from that was the usual stuff including
E a.txt (indicating an externals f
is meant there was no history info and I could commit.
I am guessing that "svn copy REPOS-URL REPOS-URL" would have worked too.
I found a thread today
(http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=965300)
related to this topic where it was suggested that svn copy REPOS-URL WC should
never fetch externals.
I also found http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3589
I think the issue I was having is a variant of this bug. It is targeted
for a fix in 1.7.0. I found the issue using 1.6.12.
Ryno Changuion
