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Re: use svn:externals for build/generator/ezt.py?

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2003-10-31 17:00:03 CET

kfogel@collab.net wrote:

>Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
>
>
>>>>In the end, implementing references in the FS from the start would
>>>>probably have cost less...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>... and still not solve the real problem. :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Heh. What _is_ the real problem, then?
>>
>>
>
>The real difficulty with svn:externals (and with references if we
>implement them) is the working copy code needed to support it. That's
>where all our svn:externals bugs are now, and that's where all our
>references bugs would be if we had references.
>
>
We already have code that handles switched directories. It shouldn't be
a lot of extra work for them to handle redirect-like external references.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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