svnsvn-externals

svn externals not working

I don't claim to know anything about svn, but I thought I understood how externals work.

I'm making a new project and i want my lib folder to have an external to some other project (svn location). I've done this plenty of times before and never had an issue, am I just having a Friday moment?

  1. I created the following folders:

    /myproj

    /myproj/lib

    under a folder already checked out.

  2. I svn added and committed them, then updated the parent folder to make sure everything was good.

  3. I right clicked -> tortoise -> properties on the lib folder and added my svn external to the path I want (which definitely exists): "MyExternalFolderName http://path.to/svn/location"
  4. i committed the lib folder
  5. when i update the lib folder, usually id expect to see it update the external, but nothing happens. it just says "completed."

What have I forgotten?

Edit: countless reboots, recheckouts and reinstalled have not fixed it.

Solution

  • Thanks for your help but it looks like TortoiseSVN-1.6.1.16129-win32-svn-1.6.1 is bugged. Great. Their tigris site is also down. Brilliant. 2.5 hours wasted.

    Worked around it by making the folder structure and externals i need through the repro browser.