On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 03:54:23AM +0200, André Hänsel wrote: > I am trying to add an svn:externals definition to a working copy. I set the > property on a directory and ran svn update on that directory, but nothing is > fetched. > > I found this article: > http://blogs.gnome.org/johannes/2008/02/20/svnexternals-for-noobs/ > However, from other documentation it's unclear to me if a commit is really > necessary for svn:external to work. Of course, I don't want to commit an > untested external definition. > > I am using TortoiseSVN 1.6.15 built with Subversion 1.6.16.
With Subversion 1.6, if you put the svn:externals property on a locally added directory you'll need to commit the directory before 'svn update' will fetch the externals. This has been fixed in Subversion 1.7, see: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2267 You can try out a pre-release version of 1.7 if you need this feature ASAP. http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html#pre-release If you do so, please help improve the final 1.7.0 release by reporting any problems you find while using the pre-release version. Thanks!
