SVN externals not properly displayed in TortoiseSVN's Repository Browser and locally marked as non-versioned

Question

I work on a (work) project that's scattered across a myriad of (source) projects and SVN locations. To make life easier, I followed a colleague's advice and set up a new folder on SVN, /_all/, and specified all of the other projects' trunk folders as externals:

When I check /_all out, it dutifully pulls out all external projects. It works great.

But in my SVN Repo Browser, I can only see one of all those externals being linked in. It also seems to have the wrong overlay icon (blue instead of red arrow: http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-repobrowser.html ) Incidentally, it's the one project where there is no trunk/ subfolder...

On top of that, TortoiseSVN seems to be unsure what to make of it all; only the one external project displayed in the Repository Browser above is recognized as "up to date" (green tick), all others get a big question mark assigned…

Any ideas where I'm going wrong and what I need to do to...

• make all external projects show up as sub-folders (i.e. linked-in projects) on SVN?
• make TortoiseSVN locally recognize these projects as up to date?

I'd appreciate any tips to help sort this out. :)

Answer 1

Turns out that it is actually a bug and that there is a workaround, as Stefan Küng points out:

But regardless of that, are you saying that if I create the following folders and commit them to the ^/_all/ folder, and then add the respective externals to them (instead of to the _all/ folder directly), it would work?

Create this folder in SVN... | ...and attach this one as an external

^/_all/project1/trunk | ^/project1/trunk

^/_all/groupA/subgroup1/project2/trunk | ^/groupA/subgroup1/project2/trunk

^/_all/project3 | ^/project3

Not quite:

^/_all/project1 | ^/project1/trunk

^/_all/groupA/subgroup1/project2 | ^/groupA/subgroup1/project2/trunk

^/_all/ | ^/project3