Re: Making branches

> This worked although there was an error at the end of the script
...
> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied removing __branch__\.svn\dir-prop-base

That is the reason I want to try a different way.  Subversion doesn't
let you set properties on a URL - it has to be on a local working copy.
Consequently I have to check out the top level dir (as __branch__)
and then set the externals property and commit.  The directory is
then removed.  However programs like TortoiseSVN constantly scan
and so prevent some of the removals.

I am going to change it so that the checkout is done to a temporary
directory outside the current directory structure and all the copies
and modifications done there followed by the final checkin.

BTW their reason for not allowing propsets on URLs is because you
clobber something.  There are various mailing list postings about
how silly that is.  It would be fine if I could specify them when
doing the svn mkdir but they don't allow that either.

Roger


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