Issue

You are using Subversion as SCM in your build and the checkout fails with:

Fetching 'https://subversion_host/path/file' at -1 into 'some/path/file'
...
At revision XXXXX
ERROR: Failed to parse svn info for external https://subversion_host/path/file at some/path/file
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNException: svn: E200005: 'some/path/file' is not under version control
   at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.error(SVNErrorManager.java:64)
   at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNErrorManager.error(SVNErrorManager.java:51)
   at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc16.SVNWCClient16$12.handleError(SVNWCClient16.java:3456)
   at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNWCAccess.walkEntries(SVNWCAccess.java:774)
   at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNWCAccess.walkEntries(SVNWCAccess.java:757)
   at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc16.SVNWCClient16.crawlEntries(SVNWCClient16.java:3433)
   at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc16.SVNWCClient16.doInfo(SVNWCClient16.java:2645)
   at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.old.SvnOldGetInfo.run(SvnOldGetInfo.java:18)
   at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.old.SvnOldGetInfo.run(SvnOldGetInfo.java:12)
   at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc2.SvnOperationRunner.run(SvnOperationRunner.java:21)
   at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc2.SvnOperationFactory.run(SvnOperationFactory.java:1235)
   at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc2.SvnOperation.run(SvnOperation.java:294)
   at org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNWCClient.doInfo(SVNWCClient.java:2485)
   at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$BuildRevisionMapTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:1288)
   at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM$BuildRevisionMapTask.invoke(SubversionSCM.java:1238)
   at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:2719)
   at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:120)
   at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
   at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:326)
   at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:68)
   at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
   at hudson.remoting.Engine$1$1.run(Engine.java:62)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Environment

• Jenkins
• CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise
• CloudBees Jenkins Platform
• Subversion plugin

Resolution

Subversion 1.6 added the support for files in `svn:externals.

This error occurs if you try to use this feature with a local workspace created for an older version of Subversion.

To control this behavior with Jenkins go to Manage Jenkins -> Configure System -> Subversion and configure the Subversion Workspace Version to 1.6 from the combo box (by default it is set to oldest version - 1.4).