On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 06:19:31PM -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Having an issue where I have a checkout of trunk and I do a svn merge > --reintegrate of a branch. That branch has added a directory and > within that directory it has added a svn:external and when I do an svn > up at the top level of trunk, it never downloads the external until I > commit the reintegrated merge. I want to however test the reintegrated > code before I commit.
Externals on locally added directories aren't supported in 1.6. This support will appear in Subversion 1.7. See http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2267
