"Bert Huijben" <b...@qqmail.nl> writes: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Noorul Islam K M [mailto:noo...@collab.net] >> Sent: maandag 30 mei 2011 12:17 >> To: Subversion >> Subject: Bug in exporting externals? >> >> >> While working on issue 3799, in one of the review comments julianf said >> the following about number 10 test in external_tests.py. >> >> <quote> >> A/B/gamma is only an external: it does not appear in the WC until >> Subversion processes the external definitions. >> >> It looks to me like that failure was showing us a bug. If I run the >> test, without your patch, in verbose mode, I see: >> >> CMD: svn export svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10 >> svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export [...] >> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A >> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A/B >> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A/B/lambda >> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A/B/gamma >> [...] >> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A/B/gamma >> [...] >> CMD: svn export --ignore-externals >> svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10 >> svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export [...] >> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A >> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A/B >> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A/B/lambda >> A svn-test-work/working_copies/externals_tests-10.export/A/B/gamma >> [...] >> >> There is a comment in the test about --ignore-externals not ignoring >> A/B/gamma. That's a bug. And the first export (without >> --ignore-externals) is also buggy. It shouldn't export A/B/gamma twice. >> >> We shouldn't just quietly tweak the test to hide the bug. We should >> write a new test specifically to check for that bug, or fix the bug, or >> file an issue, or write to the dev@ list about it. Something. >> >> - Julian >> </quote> >> >> I tried to re-create this out of test environment and I came up with a >> reproduction script which is attached. >> >> Here I have a repository with the following files >> >> A/B/lambda >> A/D/gamma >> >> Along with this I have an external set on A/B as >> >> "^/A/D/gamma gamma" >> >> Now while exporting the working copy. A/B/gamma is exported twice which >> looks like a bug and while exporting the WC with --ignore-externals >> A/B/gamma is exported once which also seems to be a bug since A/B/gamma >> is an external. >> >> I can go ahead and create an issue for this if people can confirm this. > > A/B/gamma is a file external. And as such it is also threated as part of the > working copy itself. > > We export it again as an external later, but the original problem is that it > is just a versioned file in a versioned directory. >
Is this the expected behaviour? Thanks and Regards Noorul
