Kuno Meyer wrote on Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:31:33 +0000:
> Is it by design that 'svn cleanup' ignores externals and that there is no way 
> to
> include them? 
> 

You should be able to include them by naming them explicitly:

% svn cleanup path/to/external/dir

> I found it a bit inconsistent that 'working copy' has different meanings for
> 'svn update' and 'svn cleanup'.
> 

I think we can fix that in 1.8.  We have --include-externals and
--ignore-externals flags; we just need to decide whether to include
externals by default or not.

Daniel

> Kuno
> 
> ------------
> 
> $>svn help update
> update (up): Bring changes from the repository into the working copy.
> 
> $>svn help cleanup
> cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
> 
> ------------
> 
> $> svn up <wc_root>
> 
> Fetching external item into '<some_other_path>':
> svn: warning: W155037: Previous operation has not finished; run 'cleanup' if 
> it
> was interrupted
> 
> At revision 62460.
> svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions
> 
> $> svn cleanup <wc_root>
> 
> $> svn up <wc_root>
> 
> Fetching external item into '<some_other_path>':
> svn: warning: W155037: Previous operation has not finished; run 'cleanup' if 
> it
> was interrupted
> 
> At revision 62460.
> svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions
> 
> 

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