"Boe, Aasmund" <a....@ti.com> writes: > For reference, the server side uses a very old version (1.1.4 > [r13838]), but from what I know externals is a client "feature" so an > old server should not be a problem. Besides, this workes well using > subversion 1.6.x (client). > > This is the scenario I observe: > > 1. Checkout a project (that has single file svn:externals) > svn checkout http://my/repo/projects/proj1 proj1 > > 2. Browsing to the folder in my working copy with single file svn:externals. > E.g. > myFile.txt http://my/repo/components/comp1/myFile.txt > > 3. Executing svn update and I get the following output: > Fetching external item into 'trunk\proj1\source\myFile.txt': > : warning: W160016: Failure opening > '/components/comp1/myFile.txt/myFile.txt'
W160016 is the server-side error SVN_ERR_FS_NOT_DIRECTORY so it looks as if the server might be the problem. I don't have a 1.1.4 server to try. If you provide a complete reproduction recipe it would allow you to try a newer server and allow other people to try as well. -- Philip
