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I want to link directories in SVN as shown in this post: Is it possible to link SVN repository files so that a file is actually a reference to another repository's file? however I seem to be doing something wrong. Here is what I am doing:

cd $HOME
mkdir svn
mkdir svn_checkout

svnadmin create svn/test
cd svn_checkout
svn co file:///$HOME/svn/test
cd test
echo 'Hello world!' > hello_world.txt
svn add hello_world.txt
svn commit -m "added first file."
cd $HOME

svnadmin create svn/test2
cd svn_checkout
svn co file:///$HOME/svn/test2
cd test2
svn propset svn:externals 'test file:///$HOME/svn/test' .
svn commit -m "added externals."
svn update

When I run update I get this:

Updating '.':
svn: warning: W200000: Error handling externals definition for 'test':
svn: warning: W180001: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'file:///$HOME/svn/test' At revision 1.
svn: E205011: Failure occurred processing one or more externals definitions

Does anyone know how to fix my issue? Oh and if it matters here is my version number.

svn --version
svn, version 1.8.10 (r1615264)
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    Does the error really have $HOME in it (or did you do that to protect your privacy)? If so, then that's your problem; the path can't have any shell variables in it. Commented Sep 15, 2015 at 19:08
  • Thank you this was my problem. I replaced $HOME/svn/test with the full path to my svn test repo and it worked without any issues. Commented Sep 15, 2015 at 19:17
  • You can not use file-externals for cross-repository linking Commented Sep 15, 2015 at 20:51
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