I'm working with Subversion 1.6.11 and 1.6.12 on RHEL 5, and have noticed an svn:externals issue. If I attempt to use a target directory named "global", it breaks the checkout in various confusing ways. For example:
svn proplist -v . svn proplist -v . Properties on '.': svn:externals test svn://testrepo/repo/test global svn://testrepo/repo/global svn update Fetching external item into 'global' svn: warning: Unrecognized format for the relative external URL 'test' svn: warning: Error handling externals definition for 'global/^/test': svn: warning: Unrecognized format for the relative external URL 'test' I'm assuming that the issue is that "global" is a bad, bad name for any directory in Subversion. Is this the case, or is it merely svn:externals that has these issues?