Johan, Thanks for your response.
When I saw this description, I thought, "Oh yes. That's our problem." However, I think the thread I was looking at said it was fixed in 1.6. Our Subversion server is 1.9.2. Almost all of our agents are 1.9.4. A couple of the agents are 1.7.9. So, it doesn't seem to be the same problem. Or maybe there is a path to get to that failure that wasn't fixed. Sorry about the terminology. I'm not familiar with how these links are implemented. I have assumed that they were just Unix links. I know that what looks like a file is actually a pointer to another location which contains the actual file. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Johan Corveleyn [mailto:jcor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 5:20 PM To: Dalton, Bill (GE Energy Connections) <bill.dal...@ge.com> Cc: users@subversion.apache.org; Hannold, Bill (GE Energy Connections) <bill.hann...@ge.com> Subject: EXT: Re: Checkout through link ignores rev parameter On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 7:54 PM, 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. Hi Bill, There is no such thing as "Subversion links". I'm assuming you mean "externals" (more specifically "file externals", if I understand correctly). Anyway, I think what you're seeing is this bug (which is very old): https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__issues.apache.org_jira_browse_SVN-2D2516&d=DQIFaQ&c=IV_clAzoPDE253xZdHuilRgztyh_RiV3wUrLrDQYWSI&r=yvIDsFuVzfRgZstZ_Ob6IPM_fQ2qEpHAciKWAEBRKA4&m=-0qjOQDBBuIUbZm-A_V26RoFu154y2XSJeQcuzXre08&s=x63Xj33NLxhT4bGGC8mF51wJaBo54vV0DeQIURY9DKk&e= (--revision option is not forwarded to svn:externals references) The issue was last updated in 2015, with a reference to a mail thread on the dev-list, containing a design / specs discussion (which unfortunately seems to have stranded): https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__svn.haxx.se_dev_archive-2D2015-2D08_0179.shtml&d=DQIFaQ&c=IV_clAzoPDE253xZdHuilRgztyh_RiV3wUrLrDQYWSI&r=yvIDsFuVzfRgZstZ_Ob6IPM_fQ2qEpHAciKWAEBRKA4&m=-0qjOQDBBuIUbZm-A_V26RoFu154y2XSJeQcuzXre08&s=MNyiXuGZBdt0ftxSTT8XKwEdGsw0DvxMONMbhq_x120&e= -- Johan
