On Jan 17, 2012, at 16:10 , Evan Wee wrote: > How would we open a ticket for this issue? Or would Issue 4091 cover this > case? >
(cc-ing users@ again) I made a test and opened a ticket, since it's a different symptom than the #4091 problem. http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4102 https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1233292 You could add yourself in the 'cc' field of the ticket, if you like. Cheers, Steve > Evan Wee > [Build] > Email/AIM: ev...@nationalfibre.net > > > > > On 2012-01-17, at 2:21 AM, Stephen Butler wrote: > >> >> On Jan 16, 2012, at 23:52 , Evan Wee wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We have the following issue: >>> >>> SVN cannot add symlinks that reference a directory which is an svn external. >>> >>> We have these directories in SVN inside a parent directory: >>> >>> DirectoryA >>> DirectoryB >>> Code_Framework >>> >>> Code_Framework has the svn:external property pointing to another location >>> "1.2.3 http://svn/parent2/3partycode/1.2.3" >>> >>> We check out parent directory and add a symlink S1 to reference >>> "Code_Framework/1.2.3". >>> This is fine. >>> >>> However, when we try to add S1, we get: >>> svn: warning: W150002: '/Users/evanw/Projects/test/parent/1.2.3' is already >>> under version control >>> svn: E200009: Could not add all targets because some targets are already >>> versioned >>> svn: E200009: Illegal target for the requested operation >>> >>> When we try to check it in, we get: >>> svn: E145001: Commit failed (details follow): >>> svn: E145001: Entry '/Users/evanw/Projects/test/parent/1.2.3' has >>> unexpectedly changed special status >>> >>> >>> >>> This operation works in SVN 1.6.x client, but not 1.7.2. We just upgraded >>> to SVN 1.7.2 for our client and our server is still on 1.6.10. We are on a >>> Mac platform. SVN was installed via MacPorts. >>> >>> Is this change intentional? >> >> No, it's a bug in 1.7.x. It looks like a variant of the recently reported >> issue #4091 "error replacing executable with symlink". >> >> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4091 >> >> Regards, >> Steve