Re: Recurse into same-repos externals at commit time.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Markus Schaber
<m.schaber_at_3s-software.com> wrote:

[...]

>> Questions remain about passing externals explicitly:
>>
>> - when an external is passed as explicit target, still require --include-
>> externals?
>
> IMHO: Do not require --include-externals. If I only want to commit a single file which happens to reside inside an external subdirectory, and give that file explicitly, I do not want to say "--include-externals".

+1. It has always worked that way, that you can commit an external
(dir) by specifying it explicitly (how else would you do it
currently). We have some scripts that do exactly that:

$ cd dir-only-containing-externals
$ svn commit * # commits all the external dirs.

-- 
Johan