Update failed with is not a working copy message on externals

2010-03-03 Thread Giulio Troccoli
Hello, We are starting using externals to publish some documentation for our customer. The repository contains test files and documentation about the testing. Some of these files and docs need to be made available to our customer. So I thought of creating a Public folder and define the

Re: Update failed with is not a working copy message on externals

2010-03-03 Thread Andy Levy
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 05:14, Giulio Troccoli giulio.trocc...@uk.linedata.com wrote: Hello, We are starting using externals to publish some documentation for our customer. The repository contains test files and documentation about the testing. Some of these files and docs need to be made

RE: Update failed with is not a working copy message on externals

2010-03-03 Thread Giulio Troccoli
Cc: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Update failed with is not a working copy message on externals On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 05:14, Giulio Troccoli giulio.trocc...@uk.linedata.com wrote: Hello, We are starting using externals to publish some documentation for our customer

Re: Update failed with is not a working copy message on externals

2010-03-03 Thread Johan Corveleyn
- From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.l...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 March 2010 11:31 To: Giulio Troccoli Cc: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Update failed with is not a working copy message on externals On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 05:14, Giulio Troccoli giulio.trocc...@uk.linedata.com wrote: Hello

RE: Update failed with is not a working copy message on externals

2010-03-03 Thread Giulio Troccoli
The problem is that you're using file externals combined with putting the external locally in a directory which is not already a working copy. That's not supported for file externals. See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html. Somewhere near the end it says: