On 28.03.2018 01:38, Jonathan Schell wrote: > I have a tree that looks like: > > https://svn/repo/name1/externs/normal_files_here > > The folder "externs" has two external properties: > ../fold1@18 fold1 > ../fold2/file1.txt@18 file1.txt > > These folders and file exist at rev 18. The commit to add the properties to > "externs" is commit 32. > > I then do a rename of "name1" to "name2". > > The externs now break, as the item they were pointing to no longer exists.
Because the default operative revision is HEAD and there's no such object in HEAD, yes. > So I edit the properties to: > -r 18 ../fold1 fold1 > -r 18 ../fold2/file1.txt file1.txt > > And then did an update and the file got brought in, but there was still an > error on the folder. You need both peg and operative revisions: -r 18 ../fold1 fold1@18 -r 18 ../fold2/file1.txt@18 file1.txt The peg revision tells Subversion which object to look for and the operative revision tells it which version of that object to use. -- Brane
