On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 05:08:52PM +0200, Thomas Clement wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a repository which contains an external to another repository with a > fixed revision number. > Something like: "-rxxx svn+ssh://..." > > I noticed I can make modifications inside this external and commit the > modifications. > At which point the external is actually above its fixed revision number > (xxx+1 for example). > > "svn status" does not mention this particular state and "svn up" does not > bring the external back to its fixed revision number. > > What bothers my is that doing a checkout of the repository will get me to a > different state but doing "svn status" and "svn up" on my working copy does > not alert me of that. > How can I check if my externals are above their fixed revision number? > > Maybe it is just a bad idea to edit and commit inside externals? > > > Regards, > Thomas
See this issue: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3401 and the discussion thread linked from it: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-04/0366.shtml