On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:11:02AM -0000, Echlin, Jamie wrote: > Morning, > > I have reproduced the problem discussed here (single file externals > cause mergeinfo on directories and files containing file externals): > http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-08/0088.shtml in the latest version > of the 1.6.x branch, which is affecting a repo in our production > environment. > > Reason for the mail is I can't find a bug reference for this, wondered > if anyone knew? >
This seems to have been fixed in trunk. A corresponding test was added in r992114 and it passes. There hasn't been a backport of this fix, probably because this issue was fixed as a side-effect of the on-going working copy rewrite. If getting a fix for this in 1.6.x is important to you, feel free to file an issue requesting a fix the for 1.6.x branch. Maybe someone will find time for this. Make sure to link back to this thread in the mail archives from the issue. Thanks. > Appears to me that this makes single file externals pretty much a > non-starter if you also use branching/merging... is that fair to say? File externals have a lot of problems and should probably not have been released as-is in 1.6.0. We're trying to fix most of those problems for 1.7.
