I found out that I need to use --set-depth to make the depth stick, so solved this one. Just setting --depth is ignored on the next update.
On Apr 19, 2:50 pm, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:42 PM, coolie <pcoul...@senscient.com> wrote: > > Specifiyinfg 'immediates' or 'files' does not checkout the externals > > for a folder with this property set. > > Yes, this is a known > issue:http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3311(externals > are not created unless depth=infinity) > > > If you then do a checkout with 'infinity' you get the libs, but > > subsequent updates delete the lib again!. I can't seem to stop this > > behavior now as no matter what I do the lib always gets deleted. > > I don't understand this bit. Can you describe an example, preferably > with a set of command line commands, starting from an empty > repository, and demonstrating what you mean? > > -- > Johan