[mapserver-dev] svn update error

thomas bonfort thomas.bonfort at gmail.com
Sat Oct 15 14:42:39 EDT 2011


Steve,
svn:external on single files is only supported with subversion 1.6+,
you'll have to upgrade I think.

--
thomas

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 20:39, Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
> Alan,
>
> I do not have that file in my copy and in fact did a clean checkout of trunk
> and that generated the same error.
>
> Looking at the error message it says:
>
> svn: URL ... refers to a file, not a directory
>
> for the external reference so maybe the external reference is not getting
> setup correctly and regardless I have not file 'docs/en/MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt'
>
> So somebody that knows more than me about this problem needs to look into it
> as I do not think it is doing whatever people think it is supposed to be
> doing.
>
> Thanks,
>  -Steve W
>
> On 10/15/2011 11:14 AM, Alan Boudreault wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> Not sure if it's your case... but since a while..that file has been
>> removed from the repo and is now an external reference. (doc needs) Try
>> to just remove manually the file then 'svn up'.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> On 11-10-14 05:02 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I just did an svn update and got the following:
>>>
>>> woodbri at mappy:/u/software/mapserver-svn$ svn update
>>>
>>> Fetching external item into 'docs/en/MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt'
>>> svn: URL
>>> 'https://svn.osgeo.org/mapserver/trunk/mapserver/MIGRATION_GUIDE.txt'
>>> refers to a file, not a directory
>>>
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>> Do others get this, or is this just me?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Steve W
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