On Jul 9, 2010, at 14:08, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > The allowable syntax for svn:externals is a bit unclear in the Redbook. > > Shouldn't I be able to set the svn:external to point to a location in > my active repository, such as the below settings? > > svn propset svn:externals "release-1 ^/tags/release-1" . > > I seem to be able to set such values, but updating with such values > fails miserably with the subversino-1.6.12, published from RPMforge on > RHEL 5 (for reference to the version I'm using).
Try svn propset svn:externals "^/tags/release-1 release-1" .
