Stefan Sperling wrote: > > 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
Uh, thanks. That's it, I didn't commit the folder before creationg the property.
