Al Hoang

September 18, 2008

Fixing that svn: Unrecognized format for the relative external URL

Filed under: fixes, programming — hoanga @ 6:22 am

So recently I saw this when doing a svn checkout of a project and ran into the following:

$ svn co http://svn.somewhere.com/svn/projects
svn: Unrecognized format for the relative external URL ”.

Wonderful. This indicated to me there was a problem with the svn externals somewhere. After noodling a little I decided to Google around and found this. Basically, duplicate listings in your svn:externals is a bad thing.

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