Thanks for the pointers, Konstantin. I've promoted the bug to 1.8-consider. (It's not a release blocker.)
Konstantin Kolinko wrote on Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 03:02:23 +0400: > 2012/4/16 Daniel Shahaf <danie...@elego.de>: > > 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) > > There is > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2325 > > Maybe update its target milestone to be 1.8? > > Here is previous discussion, 6 months ago (dev@, 2011-10): > http://subversion.markmail.org/thread/bogwwrvjxzwuuupf > > For reference, current thread: > http://subversion.markmail.org/thread/koid6zy33s4zd3j3 > > Best regards, > Konstantin Kolinko
