On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Philip Martin <philip.mar...@wandisco.com> wrote: > Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> I am having trouble with the svn copy command. I am running RedHat >>> Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.3 and svn version 1.6.1 >>> (r934486). >> >> Do you have a test environment you'd be willing to test 1.7 or 1.8 on? >> 1.6.11 is no longer supported. > > svnadmin create repo --compatible-version 1.6 > svn import -mm repo/format file://`pwd`/repo/f > svnmucc -mm propset svn:externals '^/f x' file://`pwd`/repo > svn co file://`pwd`/repo wc > echo xx > wc/x > svn cp -mm wc/x ^/copy > > Using 1.6 the copy does nothing and fails to create a revision. Using > 1.7 the copy causes the client to abort with an assert. Using 1.8 the > copy creates a new revision.
Sorry about the blank mesage! So in general, perhaps file externals are simply not working up to your requirements before Subversoin 1.8?