Excellent, I was hoping I might be doing something wrong. Looks like I have some mass updates to do in several projects.
Perhaps as a suggestion the documentation for svn:externals should specifically recommend using peg revisions over the other way of specifying a specific revision since I can't possibly see why the current behavior of the -r mechanism to be desirable. Thanks, Jeff Pierson Software Developer Real Green Systems On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:45 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net>wrote: > On 02/28/2013 03:36 PM, Jeffrey Pierson wrote: > > I'm seeing the following error when I attempt to update a working copy > > that has an svn external. > > > > svn: warning: W200000: Error handling externals definition for > > 'MySharedProjectBeforeRename': > > svn: warning: W160013: File not found: revision 100, path > > '/trunk/MySharedProjectBeforeRename' > > svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals > definitions > > > > The external is set to a specific revision such as revision r100 and a > > rename was recently done on that directory as part of revision r101. > > The external references a project that is located in a separate > > repository on the same server and has always worked until after the > > rename. It appears as though when svnserve is resolving the path that > > it is resolving first from HEAD even though a specific revision was > > specified. below is an example of what the external definition looks > > like followed by both the versions of svn client and svnserve that I'm > > running. > > > > -r 100 /shared/trunk/MySharedProjectBeforeRename > MySharedProjectBeforeRename > > You've accurately determined how Subversion is processing your externals > definition. But it appears you aren't familiar with the general way in > which Subversion processes URLs/paths and revisions. > > I suggest that you first read this: > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html > > Then, change your external definition to instead be: > > /shared/trunk/MySharedProjectBeforeRename@100MySharedProjectBeforeRename > > > -- > C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> > CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Enterprise Cloud Development > >
