Mothmonsterman <p.e.fletc...@gmail.com> writes: > Should this have been resolved with Issue 4015? > > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4015 > > On Oct 17, 4:30 pm, Mothmonsterman <p.e.fletc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> same problem here.. >> >> On Oct 4, 1:10 pm, Rolf Campbell <rcampbell-cyg...@dragonwaveinc.com> >> wrote: >> >> > When I try to update a working view that contains file-externals, I get >> > an error because the client thinks the external is aversioneditem. >> >> > In an attempt to clear the problem, I deleted the file (locally), but >> > "svn up" restores the file and then complains about itexisting. >> >> > Are file-externals supported in v1.7? >> >> > $ svn up >> > Updating '.': >> > Restored 'lastserial.txt' >> >> > Fetching externaliteminto 'lastserial.txt': >> > svn: warning: W195017: The file external from >> > 'https://[snip]/trunk/SerialNumbers/lastserial.txt'cannotoverwritetheexistingversionedite >> > mat '/c/[snip]/lastserial.txt' >> >> > At revision 3905. >> > svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions
Difficult to say. Issue 4015 is fixed in 1.7. Are you using rc4? Are you using a 1.7 checkout, or a 1.6 checkout upgraded to 1.7? -- Philip