On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:50:51AM +0200, Matthias Binninger wrote: > Hi, > > updated three computers to (Tortoise)SVN 1.8 yesterday and one problem > occurred on each of them: > > After the initial wc upgrade, attempts to update fail while updating > externals in folders that are not even checked out (sparse checkout). > > C:\Projects\SomeFolder>svn up > Updating '.': > Removed external 'SubFolder\NotCheckOut\Externals\file.txt' > svn: E720003: Can't remove directory > 'D:\Projects\SomeFolder\SubFolder\NotCheckOut\Externals': Das System kann den > angegebenen Pfad nicht finden. > > "Das System kann den angegebenen Pfad nicht finden." = "The system can not > find the given path." > Which is correct, the path does not exist, as it is not checked out, as is > the folder with the externals property on it. > > The update is aborted after the error. > The error is only raised once per external, the subsequent update fails on > the next external. > The current solution is to do multiple updates in a loop until all errors are > gone. > > Matthias
Hi Matthias, thanks for you report. This looks like a bug to me. Can you please file an issue in our issue tracker? Thanks! http://subversion.apache.org/reporting-issues.html
