Disable SVN checkout for external locations in NetBeans 7.3

Question

So here is the problem. When checking out SVN repository it completes it but then creates a new directory with the same name and checkouts everything in that. This recursive checkout process goes on forever. I'm using NetBeans and in output window it says:

Updating external location at: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/projectx/projectx

It should stop just at ...htdocs/projectx.

So my question is - how to turn off checkout for external locations in NetBeans? ...or ideally why is it checking out my project recursively and how to fix it?

Answer 1

Ok - so here is the solution I took:

svn propget -R svn:externals /path/to/working/copy/projectx/projectx

This shows all svn:externals properties in that directory. Figure out which is the broken one. In my case guilty was the root dir which had external link to nonexsistant sub-dir. So I deleted the property:

svn propdel svn:externals /path/to/working/copy/projectx/projectx

Thats it.