SVN Command-line ignores externals on Kubuntu 12.10

[BRM]

> From: Clay Weber <clay at claydoh.com>
>To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 2:19 PM
>Subject: Re: SVN Command-line ignores externals on Kubuntu 12.10
>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:
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>$ svn status --ignore-externals
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>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.
>
>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?
>

Nothing in my configs have changed, and from what I can tell Subversion won't support that until 1.8 at least (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2789344/dont-show-svnexternals-in-svn-status - see response by tripleee, which seems to reference http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1935 and the specific comment of "C. Michael Pilato Wed Nov 16 09:34:43 -0800 2011"). If Kubuntu/Ubuntu included that patch for 1.7.5, then that would be one thing and it'd be very good to know about it; however, that is all in reference to assuming there is no changes in the external's working copy - and I do have changes which are not getting reported at all:

bmeyer at bmeyer:~/viking/tools/profileDisplayTool.trunk$ svn status
X       railTemplates
X       fullProfileImageLibrary
X       imQt_deps
?       src/old-data
?       src/data6
?       src/data7
X       system-includes
bmeyer at bmeyer:~/tools/displayTool.trunk$ cd imQt_deps/
bmeyer at bmeyer:~/tools/displayTool.trunk/imQt_deps$ svn status
M       include/im/Qt/profiles/graphics/imGraphicsRT.h
M       src/profiles/graphics/imGraphicsRT.cpp
?       src/profiles/graphics/'
M       src/profiles/graphics/imGraphicsNFP.cpp
M       src/profiles/graphics/imGraphicsCommon.cpp
M       src/profiles/profiles.pro
X       src/service/qt-service
X       system-include
bmeyer at bmeyer:~/tools/displayTool.trunk/imQt_deps$ 

It's not that I can't find out what's changed - just that it is that much more of a pain to do so since I have to explicitly go into the externals to check them.


>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

Filed with Subversion? Or Kubuntu/Ubuntu? I would imagine the distro; just want to check.


Thanks,


Ben