SVN Command-line ignores externals on Kubuntu 12.10

Clay Weber clay at claydoh.com
Thu Jan 3 21:59:03 UTC 2013


BRM <bm_witness at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> 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:
>>
>>$ 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.
>>
>>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
>
>
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File the bug against Ubuntu's package:

$ ubuntu-bug subversion
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