Re: svn:externals - svn: E200009: Targets must be working copy paths

[Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>]

Ryan Schmidt wrote on Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 12:29:32 -0600:
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> On Feb 1, 2013, at 12:24, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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> > On Feb 1, 2013, at 11:00, C M wrote:
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> >> I was able to set multiple external definitions using the --file option. Worked pretty well, actually considering how challenging everything else has been so far!
> >> 
> >> One last question on this topic. I want to pin the external definition to a known revision using something this shortened command, but it's not working. The "-r 109" being the revision I want to pin to.
> >> 
> >> c:\Temp\800>svn propset svn:externals -r 109 <path info> .
> >> 
> >> svn: E205000: Cannot specify revision for setting versioned property 'svn:externals'
> > 
> > The revision number to which you want to pin each external needs to be listed on the corresponding line of the svn:externals property. Read the documentation again; I recommend following the example after the paragraph which starts "Or, making use of the peg revision syntax".
> > 
> > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.html
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> Or, in the example you gave above of wanting to pull a specific revision of just a single external, you just need quotes:
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> svn propset svn:externals "-r 109 <path info>" .
> 

You need a '--' argument here to prevent an argument parsing error.

svn propset -- svn:externals "-r 109 <path info>" ./

> Or better yet, using peg revision syntax:
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> svn propset svn:externals "<path info>@109" .
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>