Critical Description
Setting a file external property and doing 'svn up' without an 'svn commit' first is broken. noorul@laptop:/tmp/wc$ ~/projects/subversion/builds/trunk/bin/svn co file:///tmp/testrepo/ Checked out revision 0. noorul@laptop:/tmp/wc$ cd testrepo/ noorul@laptop:/tmp/wc/testrepo$ touch iota noorul@laptop:/tmp/wc/testrepo$ ~/projects/subversion/builds/trunk/bin/svn add iota A iota noorul@laptop:/tmp/wc/testrepo$ ~/projects/subversion/builds/trunk/bin/svn ci -m "Adding iota" Adding iota Transmitting file data . Committed revision 1. noorul@laptop:/tmp/wc/testrepo$ ~/projects/subversion/builds/trunk/bin/svn up Updating '.' ... At revision 1. noorul@laptop:/tmp/wc/testrepo$ ~/projects/subversion/builds/trunk/bin/svn mkdir A A A noorul@laptop:/tmp/wc/testrepo$ ~/projects/subversion/builds/trunk/bin/svn pset svn:externals "^/iota iota" A property 'svn:externals' set on 'A' noorul@laptop:/tmp/wc/testrepo$ ~/projects/subversion/builds/trunk/bin/svn up A Updating 'A' ... Fetching external item into 'A/iota' svn: warning: W155010: The node '/tmp/wc/testrepo/A' was not found. At revision 1. ../subversion/svn/update-cmd.c:183: (apr_err=205011) svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions Test is already added, externals_tests.py 29
Original issue reported by noorul