Major Description
This is reproducible with both 1.7 and 1.8.
Performing an external property update followed by an update of the file
without performing a full update will cause E205011 and W155035 errors (error
processing externals) and not allow further updates to the file. A recheckout
of the repository is required to fix the issue.
[update property on foo.c]
svn update --ignore-externals (or --depth empty)
svn update foo.c
This was discussed on users@ with Johan Corveleyn and was able to be reproduced
it was recommended to open a issue.
The operations are used in this order in an attempt to avoid performing a full
svn update on a repository with a large number of externals when only a single
external is changed. At this time with 17 and 1.8, externals create a new http
connection for each file and generates significant delays for large amounts of
file externals (>100).
The issue can be reproduced with the following:
From Johan:
Okay, with this information I can reproduce the issue (both with 1.7.9
and with trunk@1512490):
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C:\Temp\test>svnadmin create repos
C:\Temp\test>svn co file:///c:/temp/test/repos wc
Checked out revision 0.
C:\Temp\test>cd wc
C:\Temp\test\wc>echo line1 > test.txt
C:\Temp\test\wc>svn add test.txt
A test.txt
C:\Temp\test\wc>svn ci -m"r1"
Adding test.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 1.
C:\Temp\test\wc>svn up
Updating '.':
At revision 1.
C:\Temp\test\wc>svn ps svn:externals "^/test.txt@1 ext.txt" .
property 'svn:externals' set on '.'
C:\Temp\test\wc>svn ci -m"r2"
Sending .
Committed revision 2.
C:\Temp\test\wc>svn up
Updating '.':
Fetching external item into 'ext.txt':
A ext.txt
Updated external to revision 1.
At revision 2.
C:\Temp\test\wc>echo line2 >> test.txt
C:\Temp\test\wc>svn ci -m"r3"
Sending test.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 3.
C:\Temp\test\wc>svn up
Updating '.':
Fetching external item into 'ext.txt':
External at revision 1.
At revision 3.
C:\Temp\test\wc>svn ps svn:externals "^/test.txt@3 ext.txt" .
property 'svn:externals' set on '.'
C:\Temp\test\wc>svn ci -m"r4"
Sending .
Committed revision 4.
C:\Temp\test\wc>svn up --depth=empty --ignore-externals
Updating '.':
At revision 4.
C:\Temp\test\wc>svn up ext.txt
Updating 'ext.txt':
U ext.txt
Updated to revision 4.
C:\Temp\test\wc>svn up
Updating '.':
Fetching external item into 'ext.txt':
svn: warning: W155035: The specified path has an unexpected status
At revision 4.
svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions
C:\Temp\test\wc>svn st
S ext.txt
]]]
I get it also when only using --ignore-externals (or --depth=empty),
i.e. it's not necessary to combine both options in the step before the
final update.
[[[
C:\Temp\test>svn co -r3 file:///c:/temp/test/repos wc2
A wc2\test.txt
U wc2
Fetching external item into 'wc2\ext.txt':
A wc2\ext.txt
Checked out external at revision 1.
Checked out revision 3.
C:\Temp\test>cd wc2
C:\Temp\test\wc2>svn up --ignore-externals
Updating '.':
U .
Updated to revision 4.
C:\Temp\test\wc2>svn up ext.txt
Updating 'ext.txt':
U ext.txt
Updated to revision 4.
C:\Temp\test\wc2>cat ext.txt
line1
line2
C:\Temp\test\wc2>svn st
S ext.txt
C:\Temp\test\wc2>svn up
Updating '.':
Fetching external item into 'ext.txt':
svn: warning: W155035: The specified path has an unexpected status
At revision 4.
svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions
]]]
Original issue reported by dlellis