Major Description
When an external points to an absolute http:// URL that is redirected (permanently moved), an update fails in two ways. 1. When the WC has been checked out afresh and no commits have taken place, the external's status is 'X' as expected; 'svn update' fails with: [[[ + svn up Updating '.': Redirecting to URL 'http://localhost:8090/svn/repos_new': Redirecting to URL 'http://localhost:8090/svn/repos_new/realdir': Fetching external item into 'extdir': Redirecting to URL 'http://localhost:8090/svn/repos_new/realdir': svn: warning: apr_err=SVN_ERR_WC_INVALID_RELOCATION svn: warning: W155024: Invalid relocation destination: 'http://localhost:8090/svn/repos_new' (does not point to target) At revision 2. subversion/svn/update-cmd.c:175: (apr_err=SVN_ERR_CL_ERROR_PROCESSING_EXTERNALS) svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions ]]] 2. A commit done in the working copy changes the external's status to unversioned '?' (which is quite odd), and subsequent 'svn update' attempts fail with: [[[ + svn up Updating '.': Redirecting to URL 'http://localhost:8090/svn/repos_new/realdir': Fetching external item into 'extdir': svn: warning: apr_err=SVN_ERR_RA_DAV_RELOCATED svn: warning: W175011: Repository moved permanently to 'http://localhost:8090/svn/repos_new/realdir'; please relocate At revision 3. subversion/svn/update-cmd.c:175: (apr_err=SVN_ERR_CL_ERROR_PROCESSING_EXTERNALS) svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions ]]] New commits to the external source are not pulled from the repository, the external is stuck. Error messages apparently report false information. The user reported this for svn 1.7.13, but I just verified this behavior on trunk. To reproduce, first do the complete recipe as in issue #4428, and then: - for (1), just run 'svn up' in the newly checked-out WC. - for (2), run these: [[[ svn st # shows 'X extdir' echo new >> realdir/y svn ci -mm svn st # shows '? extdir' svn up # barfs cat extdir/y # still old contents ]]]
Original issue reported by neels