Re: Svn:externals do not set properly despite affirmative confirmation [Linux]

[Daniel Becroft <dj...@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Ted Sheibar <th...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> --- PROBLEM
> After creating a tag from a branch, I want to set the svn:externals
> property on that tagged branch to have the contents of a file (I call the
> file "ext.def").
>
> --- SYNOPSIS
> Overwriting the existing svn:externals property does not work despite
> receiving the message "property 'svn:externals' set on repository revision
> 83966"
>
> --- STEPS
> 1) Loops through each repository (there are 12) and detect (with svn pg) if
> the repo has the svn:externals property set
> 2) If so, set svn:externals with the values from file ext.def
>
>
> --- SCRIPT DETAILS
>
> ...tags get set here...
>
> BASE="svn+ssh://server/repos"
> REPS=`svn list $BASE`
>
> for i in ${REPS}; do
>         PROPS=(`svn pg "svn:externals" $BASE/$i/tag`)
>         if [ $PROPS -gt 0 ]; then
>                 svn ps --force --revprop -r HEAD svn:externals -F ext.def
> $BASE/$i/tag
>         if
> done
>
>
'svn:externals' is not a revision property, so the use of the --revprop and
-r switches here is incorrect. I don't think that "svn propset" can be used
with versioned properties via URLs, either (although I could be wrong here),
so you'll probably need to checkout a working copy to do this.

I think the bug here is that "svn propset" displays the "property set"
message, when I would be expecting an error.

<snipped />

Cheers,
Daniel B.

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Re: Svn:externals do not set properly despite affirmative confirmation [Linux]

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Oct 21, 2009, at 20:37, Daniel Becroft wrote:

> 'svn:externals' is not a revision property, so the use of the -- 
> revprop and -r switches here is incorrect.

Exactly.

> I don't think that "svn propset" can be used with versioned  
> properties via URLs, either (although I could be wrong here), so  
> you'll probably need to checkout a working copy to do this.

My reading of issue 2238 is that propset and propdel don't yet work on  
URLs and there's no consensus yet on whether that should be allowed.  
propedit should work on URLs as of Subversion 1.5.0.

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2238


> I think the bug here is that "svn propset" displays the "property  
> set" message, when I would be expecting an error.

Well, Subversion did successfully do exactly what was asked: it set a  
property on a revision. Granted, in this case that didn't have the  
effect the user expected. This is not the first time I have seen  
someone confuse revision properties and versioned properties, and I  
would be in favor of the command line client printing a warning if one  
of the known svn: properties is used in the wrong place.

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