Hello A file imported via svn:externals definition fails being removed after deleting the svn:externals property with propdel, or removing the specific entry with propedit.
Details see below. Regards Matias p.s.: please cc me, as I am not subscribed to this mailing list. $ svn --version svn, version 1.6.12 (r955767) compiled Jul 13 2010, 13:33:56 Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet. Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/ This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/). The following repository access (RA) modules are available: * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon. - handles 'http' scheme - handles 'https' scheme * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol. - with Cyrus SASL authentication - handles 'svn' scheme * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk. - handles 'file' scheme * ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using serf. - handles 'http' scheme - handles 'https' scheme Steps to reproduce this bug: ~/Desktop/mysvnrepo$ svnadmin create test ~/Desktop/mysvnrepo$ svn co file:///Users/pisco/Desktop/mysvnrepo/test/ sandbox Checked out revision 0. ~/Desktop/mysvnrepo$ cd sandbox/ ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(0)$ mkdir -p a/b/c ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(0)$ cd a/b/c/ ~/<4>/b/c$ touch bla.txt ~/<4>/b/c$ cd ../../.. ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(0)$ svn add a/ A a A a/b A a/b/c A a/b/c/bla.txt ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(0M)$ mkdir x ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(0M)$ svn add x/ A x ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(0M)$ svn commit . Adding a Adding a/b Adding a/b/c Adding a/b/c/bla.txt Adding x Transmitting file data . Committed revision 1. ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(0:1)$ svn propedit svn:externals x Set new value for property 'svn:externals' on 'x' ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(0:1M)$ svn up x Fetching external item into 'x/bla.txt' E x/bla.txt Updated external to revision 1. Updated to revision 1. ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(0:1M)$ svn commit Sending x Committed revision 2. ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(0:2)$ svn propdel svn:externals x property 'svn:externals' deleted from 'x'. ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(0:2M)$ svn up At revision 2. ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(2M)$ svn st M x X x/bla.txt ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(2M)$ svn commit . Sending x Committed revision 3. ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(2:3)$ svn up At revision 3. ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(3)$ svn st X x/bla.txt ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(3)$ svn rm x/bla.txt svn: Cannot remove the file external at 'x/bla.txt'; please propedit or propdel the svn:externals description that created it ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(3)$ rm x/bla.txt ~/<1>/mysvnrepo/sandbox(3M)$ svn st ! X x/bla.txt
