[SVN-4427] export externals files

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.x
• Fix Version/s: ---
• Component/s: cmdline client
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 20/Sep/13 13:26
• Updated: 20/Sep/13 13:26

Description

I am using Windows 7 OS with this svn client:

D:\> svn --version
svn, Version 1.8.3-SlikSvn-1.8.3-X64 (SlikSvn/1.8.3) X64

When i run

svn export path1 path2

I am missing all external files. According to this post i found with google,
externals should be part of the export:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-09/0396.shtml

Also there is an option to ignore externals. I do not use this option. So i
expect the externals to be part of the export.

I am using a new feature of svn:externals to specify not directories, but files
directly. This is my svn:externals definition. The external files have been
downloaded successfully on svn up:

D:\> svn propget svn:externals myPath
http://myHost/svn/xxxxx/xxx.java@5836 xxx.java
http://myHost/svn/xxxxx/xxx.xml@5838 xxx.xml

I posted this bug report on the developers mailinglist and it was confirmed by
Stefan:
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2013-09/0143.shtml

For the time being Stefan suggested to use external directories as workaround.

Original issue reported by david888