How can I change a svn external in the repository

Question

We have a number of externals in our project and I wish to create an additional branch within them.

I have gone in and modified the svn:external properties on my local copy and all is good there and have attempted to commit these to the repository (doing an svn ci -m "external", I also tried svn ci --depth empty -m "external") but when another user updates their dev, they still have the old external reference.

Doing an SVN export also returns the old external.

Is there anything I'm missing?

Answer 1

Let me get this straight, you have an svn external: something http://example.com/something/tag/1.2

and you want to change it to something http://example.com/something/branch/1.2

then you need to 1.edit the svn externals which you have already done, 2. do an svn up (if you cant svn up then you might need to delete the branch you already have in your repo) 4. then you will be able to check in the new branch..

best Jeff