Hello list,
I tried coming up with a simple repro-script but there it worked, of
course...
I didn't manage to reproduce the error with the file:// protocol, but
with http:// I was able to reproduce it.
Still on Windows 7, still using subversion 1.7.4 on the client and
subversion 1.4.3 on the server with Apache 2.0.52 serving the repository.
http://192.168.0.22/svn/repos/test123 is an empty repository.
The script:
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svn co http://192.168.0.22/svn/repos/test123 wc123
echo test >wc123\test1.txt
svn add wc123\test1.txt
svn ci -m "initial checkin" wc123
svn up wc123
svn propset svn:externals "^/test1.txt test2.txt" wc123
svn up wc123
svn up wc123
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The last update outputs the following:
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Updating 'wc123':
Fetching external item into 'wc123\test2.txt':
svn: warning: W160016: Failure opening '/test1.txt/test2.txt'
At revision 1.
svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions
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I tried the same with the subversion repository (apparently subversion
1.7.0), there I could not reproduce the error with the following script.
Everything went well.
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C:\SVN>svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/doc wcsvn
C:\SVN>svn propset svn:externals "../INSTALL INSTALL" wcsvn
C:\SVN>svn up wcsvn
C:\SVN>svn up wcsvn
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So maybe it is related to the server version and the communication protocol.
Anyway, if the bug cannot be found I could always use directory
externals instead of file externals, they work just fine.
Best regards,
Stefan
