I work on a (work) project that's scattered across a myriad of (source) projects and SVN locations. To make life easier, I followed a colleague's advice and set up a new folder on SVN, /_all/, and specified all of the other projects' trunk folders as externals:
When I check /_all out, it dutifully pulls out all external projects. It works great.
But in my SVN Repo Browser, I can only see one of all those externals being linked in. It also seems to have the wrong overlay icon (blue instead of red arrow: http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-repobrowser.html ) Incidentally, it's the one project where there is no trunk/ subfolder...
On top of that, TortoiseSVN seems to be unsure what to make of it all; only the one external project displayed in the Repository Browser above is recognized as "up to date" (green tick), all others get a big question mark assigned…
Any ideas where I'm going wrong and what I need to do to...
make all external projects show up as sub-folders (i.e. linked-in projects) on SVN?
make TortoiseSVN locally recognize these projects as up to date?
I'd appreciate any tips to help sort this out. :)
解决方案
Turns out that it is actually a bug and that there is a workaround, as Stefan Küng points out:
But regardless of that, are you saying that if I create the following
folders and commit them to the ^/_all/ folder, and then add the
respective externals to them (instead of to the _all/ folder
directly), it would work?
Create this folder in SVN... | ...and attach this one as an external
^/_all/project1/trunk | ^/project1/trunk
^/_all/groupA/subgroup1/project2/trunk | ^/groupA/subgroup1/project2/trunk
^/_all/project3 | ^/project3
Not quite:
^/_all/project1 | ^/project1/trunk
^/_all/groupA/subgroup1/project2 | ^/groupA/subgroup1/project2/trunk
^/_all/ | ^/project3