You are adding a directory ‘ext’, which makes it a versioned path *inside* the
repository/working copy and then in the parent directory you set a property
that it is something *external*.
A path can’t be versioned as part of the working copy and be an external at the
same time.
Once a path is versioned, you can’t shadow it with an external.
(Technically externals aren’t in your working copy… they are a higher level
abstraction and a working copy by itself)
As far as I can tell this works as expected.
Bert
From: Christian K. [mailto:christian.k.2...@gmail.com]
Sent: woensdag 8 april 2015 17:13
To: users@subversion.apache.org
Subject: Changing external to sub-directory yields W155007 and E205011
Dear all,
using svn 1.8.11 changing an existing svn:externals property to a sub-directory
thereof will result in an "... is not a working copy root" (combination of
W200000, W155007 and E205011). The attached sequence of commands [1] will
reproduce the behavior from scratch (Windows batch syntax).
The final svn update will result in the attached output [2].
Is this regular behavior of svn or is this a bug related to the processing of
svn:externals?
I would expect that changing the value of svn:externals from something valid to
something else valid should be handled by svn.
Thanks and best regards,
Christian
[1]
svnadmin create repo
svn co file:///%CD%/repo <file:///\\%CD%25\repo> wc
mkdir wc\foo
mkdir wc\ext
mkdir wc\ext\subdir
svn add wc\foo
svn add wc\ext
svn ci -m "" wc
svn ps svn:externals "^/ext ext" wc\foo
svn ci -m "" wc
svn up wc
svn ps svn:externals "^/ext/subdir ext/subdir" wc\foo
svn ci -m "" wc
svn up wc
[2]
Updating 'wc':
Fetching external item into 'wc\foo\ext\subdir':
External at revision 3.
svn: warning: W200000: Error handling externals definition for
'wc\foo\ext\subdir':
svn: warning: W155007: 'C:\Temp\wc\foo\ext\subdir' is not a working copy root
Removed external 'wc\foo\ext'
Updated to revision 3.
svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions
