That would be great if this could be tracked as a bug and eventually fixed.
For me it was very confusing that a modify operation would succeed but an add/delete would not, but this could just be a lack of low level svn understanding on my part particularly as it pertains to locks. Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Sperling [mailto:s...@elego.de] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 10:01 AM To: Bert Huijben Cc: Griffin Myers; users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Why does svn patch fail for externals on add/delete? On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 02:47:59PM +0000, Bert Huijben wrote: > The problem here is that patch locks only one working copy, but your patch > tries to change multiple working copies. (Directory externals are separate > working copies). This is a scenario that was never designed for patch. I see no reason it couldn't be made to work, though. svn patch could grab the lock on the external as well, couldn't it? I don't see why not. If so, I (original author of svn patch) think this warrants an issue in our bug tracker.
