[UPHPU] Subversion question (two repositories)

[Alvaro Carrasco]

Try deleting the directory first:
svn delete /ourcompany/blog
commit ....

THEN set the svn:externals property

Alvaro

Richard K Miller wrote:
> Thanks in advance for any help with this Subversion question.
>
> We have a WordPress blog on our company site that I'd like to connect 
> with the official WordPress SVN repository instead of our own 
> repository, where it has been.  However, the WordPress settings and 
> media files should still go to our repository.
>
> Here's what I want:
> /ourcompany  (our repository)
> /ourcompany/blog/  (WordPress repository)
> /ourcompany/blog/wp-settings.php   (our repository)
>
> Here are things I tried:
> $ svn checkout http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.1/ 
> /ourcompany/blog/
> svn: <path> is already a working copy for a different URL
>
>
> $ svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.1/ 
> /ourcompany/blog/
> svn: 'http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.1' is not the same 
> repository as <URL>
>
>
> $ svn propedit svn:externals /ourcompany
>     blog        http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tag/2.1/
> $ svn up
> svn: Working copy 'blog' locked, svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks
> $ svn cleanup
> $ svn up
> svn: Working copy 'blog' locked, svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks
>
>
> I feel like I'm close but not quite there.  Any help appreciated.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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