I’ve run into this before but really never dug into it but today I checked out a project and it was completely screwed up – odd directories everywhere and I knew that something had happened with my svn:externals.

I quickly pulled up the Tortoise repo browser and saw this:

Tortoise SVN Repo Browser

Note the blank line – it was missing my svn:externals property I KNEW was there.  Scratching my head I checked the parent directory and some sub-directories. Nothing.

Next I cranked up Eclipse, opened the SVN Repository view, checked the properties and saw this:

Eclipse SVN Repository View

Aha!  Notice the URL path is the the same but the Eclipse view correctly shows my svn:externals…

Not sure if this is a bug or what?  Seems like if you set a property it should show up in any tool??

I may post something to the Tortoise mailing list to see what they say.