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subversive svn:externals reference to a fixed revision does not honor revision

Answer 1

+1 A:

Not an exact answer on your question, but another way of achieving what you want:

Instead of adding an external, just copy the revision of the trunk into your current project. Since you are referring to a fixed revision, you are not accepting changes on it. Making a personal copy has the same effect, and copies don't take extra space in Subversion as long as you don't change them.

I you want to prevent someone making changes to your personal copy, mark it as read-only (you can do that in the Subversion configuration).

Patrick 2010-03-05 08:59:55

A reasonable workaround, but it makes it a bit harder to upgrade, which I'd want to do fairly often.

peller 2010-03-05 15:16:07

Answer 2

+2 A:

Try the form

-r 21434 http://svn.dojotoolkit.org/src/dojo/trunk/ dojo

instead of

dojo -r 21434 http://svn.dojotoolkit.org/src/dojo/trunk/

Stefan 2010-03-05 10:01:25

I upgraded to the 0.7.8.I2009-1023-1300 release, mostly to fix the problem where error messages were getting lost in an exception and lo and behold, the dialog for editing svn:properties actually spells out the correct syntax for this. Note, I needed to also remove the space between the -r and the revision to make it work (i.e. -r21334) With the space, it just ignored the -r switch and took the trunk without any warning. Fail. Surprising that both argument orders seemed to be honored. I also seemed to need to check out a new workspace in order to get a valid update going.

peller 2010-03-08 03:17:25

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