On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 5:36 AM, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote: > 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.
Are you sure? That's surprising to me, because for normal commands the operative revision always defaults to the peg revision. For example, in [1] I read "Notice that we didn't provide an operative revision this time. That's because when no operative revision is specified, Subversion assumes a default operative revision that's the same as the peg revision." Or is there a different rule for externals definitions? [1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html -- Johan
