Kuno Meyer wrote on Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 16:51:29 +0200: > Daniel Shahaf wrote on Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:48:45 +0300: > > 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 > > Thanks. This is what I did. > > However, since I am not the one who set up the "externals" layout of our > source code repository, it took me some time to understand the way a working > copy containing external references is organized. > > And then again, I realized that my custom update and rebuild script fails at > garbage collecting unreferenced pristines in sub-WCs included by "externals" > defnitions. But that's another story...
That's a good point actually, since presently 'svn cleanup' is required to garbage-collect pristines, having it recurse to externals automatically makes even more sense. Has anyone filed a bug report about this yet? If not I will.. (so it's not forgotten, etc)
