SVN Command-line ignores externals on Kubuntu 12.10

[Clay Weber]

On Wednesday, January 02, 2013 09:30:48 AM BRM wrote:

This has been driving me nuts for a while. I use Kubuntu and keep it up to 
date - no betas, latest releases (not simply LTS releases).
After the last upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 I lost the ability to do:

$ svn status

And see all the changes in the working copy - externals included. I'm using 
the default version provided by Kubuntu - Subversion 1.7.5.
I haven't changed any settings; so it's only what Kubuntu changed.

Instead, the command above acts like:

$ svn status --ignore-externals

It lists the externals (so the -q is not complicit) but does not show the 
status of them.

Has anyone else seen this with 12.10?

BTW, I have many projects checked out from SVN and this goes for all of them; 
and I don't have this problem in older version of the distro for the same 
projects in schroot environments.
So far as I can tell, 1.7.5 doesn't support this kind of feature unless 
Kubuntu/ubuntu/debian added a patch to do so.

I tried looking up bugs in launchpad and googling for similar issues but 
haven't found anything useful or related - google only turns up people 
requesting this kind of functionality.

Any tips on getting back to the standard behavior would be great.


Ben



Could there have been a change in SVN itself? There have been a number of 
updates between the version *Ubuntu* ships in 12.04 (1.6.17) and what they 
provide in 12.10 (1.7.5). Perhaps there is an issue between the client version 
and the server version used, from reading the changelog for 1.7(1)(2) - a 
fairly major update, or something in a local svn client config file?

In any case, perhaps filing a bug against subversion may be warranted 
"ubuntu-bug subversion"


(1) http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html
(2) http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/CHANGES
-- 
Charles "Clay" Weber
http://claydoh.com
http://kubuntuforums.net
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