Circular reference in plugin SVN

[kdickinson]

I have encountered some kind of circular reference issue with a particular plugin hosted on your subversion.

You can validate this issue via the following command:
svn checkout ​https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/dev-content-blocks/tags/1.4/

You will see output that looks increasingly self-referencing, eg:

Fetching external item into '1.4/dev-content-blocks/tags/1.4/dev-content-blocks/tags/1.4/dev-content-blocks/tags/1.4/dev-content-blocks':

[Otto42]

SVN external reference removed in ​https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1948715/dev-content-blocks

[Otto42]

Also in ​https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1948718/dev-content-blocks

[kdickinson]

I have identified another issue here: ​http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/

mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/css/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/css/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/css/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/css/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/css/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/css/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/css/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/languages/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/css/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/trunk/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/tags/0.3.8/class/mfp-mod-wp/

[dd32]

Removed the svn:externals from mfp-mod-wp.

WordPress.org ignores externals, you'd be best using --ignore-externals.

You'd also be better not using SVN at all, using either the WordPress plugins API to get the latest ZIP and download that directly, or using this zip url to get the latest release: https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/{$slug}.latest-stable.zip ie ​https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/mfp-mod-wp.latest-stable.zip

[Andrea Gelmini]

Hi guys,

and thanks a lot for your work!

Replying to dd32:

Removed the svn:externals from mfp-mod-wp.

I still see the issue. I can replicate it on different machines.
If I do "svn co ​https://svn.wp-plugins.org/mfp-mod-wp/", it never stops.

Same thing for this:
​https://svn.wp-plugins.org/webinar-ignition

WordPress.org ignores externals, you'd be best using --ignore-externals.

Really? I found a few plugings with dependecies from external libraries. So, I guess they need it.

Thanks a log,
Gelma

[dd32]

Replying to Andrea Gelmini:

Replying to dd32:

Removed the svn:externals from mfp-mod-wp.

I still see the issue. I can replicate it on different machines.
If I do "svn co ​https://svn.wp-plugins.org/mfp-mod-wp/", it never stops.

It appears that I didn't remove them all in ​https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1951653, so I've removed the rest in
​https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2542414

Same thing for this:
​https://svn.wp-plugins.org/webinar-ignition

Fixed that one too in ​https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2542417

WordPress.org ignores externals, you'd be best using --ignore-externals.

Really? I found a few plugings with dependecies from external libraries. So, I guess they need it.

It's never been supported, anything that's using it and relying upon it is broken and has been for a loooong time.

We won't be enabling it at all, and all automated svn processes on WordPress.org include --ignore-externals for this reason.

Please update your URLs too, plugins.svn.wordpress.org is the hostname now, not svn.wp-plugins.org which hasn't been used in a long time either :)

Additionally, if you're finding random plugins like this, that probably means you're checking out a of of plugins, please consider not using SVN for that, and using either ​https://wpdirectory.net/ or ​https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress-Plugin-Directory-Slurper