Bump. Has anyone observed the below issue, where subversion 1.7.x client issues an error when using 'svn update' on folders containing single file svn:externals? Note that subversion does indeed update the externals, it marely issues an error.
Any response is appreciated! Best regards, Åsmund B. BØ Texas Instruments Norway AS, Gaustadalléen 21, NO-0349 Oslo, Norway. Org. NO 980499480 MVA -----Original Message----- From: Boe, Aasmund Sent: 24. juli 2012 08:53 To: 'users@subversion.apache.org' Subject: svn 1.7 client issues error on update of single file externals Using subversion 1.7(.5), updating a working copy that has single file svn:externals results in an error, even if the update does indeed work. Bug, or am I doing something wrong? Details posted on stackoverflow.com (before I was aware of this mailing list): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11615043/subversion-client-1-7-file-externals-update-error And the content of the above url: I have come across an error using svn update on a working copy folder with single file svn:externals. I wonder if there is a work-around for this, if I am doing something wrong, or if this is a bug in the client 1.7.x of subversion. The error occurs when calling svn update using subversion 1.7.5 (tried TortoiseSvn 1.7.7 and slikSvn 1.7.5) on a folder that has single file svn:externals. I'm tempted to say it's a bug in the subversion client, because the update does indeed occur, but it says it fails. For reference, the server side uses a very old version (1.1.4 [r13838]), but from what I know externals is a client "feature" so an old server should not be a problem. Besides, this workes well using subversion 1.6.x (client). This is the scenario I observe: 1. Checkout a project (that has single file svn:externals) svn checkout http://my/repo/projects/proj1 proj1 2. Browsing to the folder in my working copy with single file svn:externals. E.g. myFile.txt http://my/repo/components/comp1/myFile.txt 3. Executing svn update and I get the following output: Fetching external item into 'trunk\proj1\source\myFile.txt': : warning: W160016: Failure opening '/components/comp1/myFile.txt/myFile.txt' If change the svn:externals so that the local file has a different name, like below: my_file.txt http://my/repo/components/comp1/myFile.txt Then the error message in 3. becomes as below, so the the file after the last forward slash ('/') is the local version of the file. Fetching external item into 'trunk\proj1\source\myFile.txt': : warning: W160016: Failure opening '/components/comp1/myFile.txt/my_file.txt' Best regards, Aasmund B. Boe
