Bob Archer wrote on Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 13:32:18 -0500:
> File externals require that the file being pointed to is in the same
> working copy as the external of it. From the docs:
>
> "While directory externals can place the external directory at any
> depth, and any missing intermediate director
>> 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 (indi
> 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 e
