[mapserver-dev] svn update error

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Mon Oct 17 14:17:16 EDT 2011


Hi Steve, you can blame me for all of this grief :)

-jeff


On 11-10-15 3:55 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> On 10/15/2011 2:42 PM, thomas bonfort wrote:
>> 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'.
>
> Thomas,
>
> Ahhh! that explains it. I'm on 1.5.1 via the package manager. I can live
> with this until I upgrade.
>
> Thanks,
> -Steve
>
>>>> 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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