On May 1, 2012, at 12:12, Brenden Walker wrote: > I’ve been trying to set properties in my repo with a command similar to: > > svn.exe propset --revprop -r HEAD svn:externals > “https://devsubversion/svn/Development/Trunk/Projects/XCCS/Exports@1394 > Externals/XCCS”https://devsubversion/svn/Development_TEST/Tags/SiteWatch/RC_1/Projects/SiteWatch/ > > svn reports it worked “property 'svn:externals' set on repository revision > 1496” however nothing is changed. I tried slik svn client, the one that > comes with tortoise as well as one compiled on a linux box. Same results. > I’ve tried –file, variations on the format of the external without the pin > revision..etc.. No luck. > > Perhaps a bug in VisualSVN server (what we’re using currently). However I > thought I’d ask the list first to see if this is a known problem. Or maybe > the format is just wrong. > > And yes, I have a pre-prop hook. > > I ended up working around this by checking out locally, setting props and > commit.. that works fine.
svn:externals is a versioned property, not a revision property. Setting it on a revision succeeds, as you see, but it has no effect. This is simply user error; there is no bug. You already found the correct method: check out a working copy, set svn:externals to the desired value on the desired directory, and commit.