Philip Martin <philip.mar...@wandisco.com> writes: >> 2. now locally exclude subdirectory b from update (svn update b >> --set-depth=exclude), which removes versioned subdirectory b from the >> local working copy >> 3. change the local svn:externals property set on a to become a >> directory external: >> /b b > > Here you are changing the svn:externals so that the external node is at > the same location as a versioned directory. When you try to checkout > the external and the versioned directory will obstruct each other: > > $ svnadmin create repo > $ svn mkdir -mm file://`pwd`/repo/A > $ svn mkdir -mm file://`pwd`/repo/B > $ svn co file://`pwd`/repo wc > $ svn ps svn:externals '^/B B' wc/A > $ svn ci -mm wc > > That's a very nomal svn:externals setup. Now add ^/A/B and try and > checkout: > > $ svn mkdir -mm file://`pwd`/repo/A/B > $ rm -rf wc > $ svn co file://`pwd`/repo wc > $ svn st wc > S wc/A/B > > wc/A/B should not be switched.
That's issue 4085: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4085 -- Philip
