Bug: ansible subversion module fails on an unchanged working copy

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From @Petrox on 2015-11-23T09:19:01Z

ISSUE TYPE

Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

subversion module

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 1.9.4

SUMMARY

Scenario:

• checkout a repo with externals in it
• no change on the remote or locally
• not a single bit of change on either side(!)
• rerun ansible

{{{
msg: ERROR: modified files exist in the repository.
}}}

This is clearly a bug (at least the message is, as there are no modified files nowhere), also it makes subversion module unusable.

ubuntu 14.04
ansible 1.9.4
subversion 1.8.8 (r1568071)

Copied from original issue: ansible/ansible-modules-core#2514

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From @rbu on 2015-11-23T09:19:01Z

confirmed, I have the same problem.

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From @Petrox on 2015-11-23T09:19:01Z

@rbu:
At least this is heading to the docs. 😞

ansible/ansible-modules-core#2516

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From @Petrox on 2015-11-23T09:19:01Z

Also this problem might have common reasons with #471

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[s-hertel]

It looks like this is due to the svn externals. There's been a note added to the documentation that this isn't supported: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/subversion_module.html#notes

[samdoran]

The documentation was added in ansible/ansible-modules-core#2516.