How to remove svn:externals?

["W. Martin Borgert" <de...@debian.org>]

Hi,

I have some svn:externals in my project, which must be removed,
but I don't know how. Removing the entries from svn:externals
using svn propedit did not work, i.e. the files were still there.
svn delete did not help either. I'm using SVN 1.6.12 on Debian.

Thanks in advance and please Cc me, as I'm not yet subscribed!

Re: How to remove svn:externals?

["W. Martin Borgert" <de...@debian.org>]

Thanks for your quick reply!

Quoting "Johan Corveleyn" <jc...@gmail.com>:
> I assume you're talking about file externals (as opposed to directory
> externals).

Yes.

> I think the only workaround currently is to throw away (part of) your
> working copy (after you've removed/edited the svn:externals property
> and committed that), and checking it out again.

This works perfectly.

Re: How to remove svn:externals?

[Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:27 PM, W. Martin Borgert <de...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some svn:externals in my project, which must be removed,
> but I don't know how. Removing the entries from svn:externals
> using svn propedit did not work, i.e. the files were still there.
> svn delete did not help either. I'm using SVN 1.6.12 on Debian.
>
> Thanks in advance and please Cc me, as I'm not yet subscribed!

I assume you're talking about file externals (as opposed to directory
externals). Then this is a known problem, see:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3351 - can't
remove file externals

I think the only workaround currently is to throw away (part of) your
working copy (after you've removed/edited the svn:externals property
and committed that), and checking it out again.

Cheers,
-- 
Johan