I am trying to change "svn:externals" property of a remote repository via this command:
svn ps svn:externals "vendor1 http://vendor_repo_here.com" http://main-repo-here.com
I am expecting above command to change the "svn:externals" property from whatever it is to "vendor1 http://vendor_repo_here.com".. But it throws an error:
Setting property on non-local target 'http://main-repo-here.com' needs a base revision.
So I try this:
svn ps -r HEAD svn:externals "vendor1 http://vendor_repo_here.com" http://main-repo-here.com
Now it says:
Cannot specify revision for versioned property 'svn:externals'
Am I doing something wrong? Is there anyway to change this remotely via command line?
I had a similar problem. Turtoise seems to checkout and then commit again, so I wrote a script that does the same.
svn checkout <URL> repocopy --depth 'empty'
svn propget svn:externals repocopy > tmp2
//whatever you want to do > tmp_new
svn propset svn:externals repocopy -F tmp_new
svn commit -m "commit comment" repocopy
rm -f -r repocopy
rm tmp2
rm tmp_new