Nahrgang, Kyle wrote on Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 15:10:13 +0000: > Using various versions of subversion, on both windows and linux, we > have seen situations where subversion encounters a network error in > the process of checkout out code in an svn:externals folder. When this > happens, subversion will ignore the error and continue instead of > ending with a bad exit status.
Fixed in 1.9.0, which is scheduled for release this week. The relevant CHANGES entry is r1628398.