What version of the Subversion client & server are you using? Eric
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Dalton, Bill (GE Energy Connections) < bill.dal...@ge.com> wrote: > We have projects which share some of the files in the subversion folders > but not all. So, those projects put their files into separate folders. > One of the pairs of folders contains the actual files. The other folder of > the pair has subversion links which point to the actual files in the other > folder. This strategy seems to work with only one very important > exception. When the folder with the links is checked out, the actual > files always return the HEAD version, ignoring the “rev=” parameter. > > > > Specifically, there are two folder in Subversion whose paths are > “trunk/firmware/cpu_fw/dia” and “trunk/firmware/cpu_fw_vx7/dia”. Most of > the files in the cpu_fw_vx7/dia folder (that is, all of the shared files) > are links which point to the corresponding file in the cpu_fw/dia folder. > If the cpu_fw_vx7/dia folder is updated with a “svn update -r 17905 > –non-interactive –force svnRepos/trunk/firmware/cpu_fw_vx7/dia” command, > it will always fetch the HEAD revision, instead of the 17905 revision. > > >
