On 16.02.2015 20:39, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 08:01:19PM +0100, Stefan Kueng wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm still doing some testing with the new --pin-externals feature, and I
>> found a situation which I'm not sure should be handled that way:
>>
>> imagine the repo is at r100. Now if one does a
>> svn copy http://server/trunk http://server/branches/b1 -r50 --pin-externals
>>
>> then all externals get pinned at r100. But shouldn't in-repo externals get
>> pinned to r50 instead? At least in this kind of copy, I think those
>> externals should get pinned to r50?
>
> In general, externals point at different repositories. So your expectation
> that any of the revision numbers involved in the copy process have anything
> to do with pinning is misguided. An intra-repository external (and especially
> a configuration where all externals come from the same repository) is a special
> case where I don't think it is wise to make pinning behave any differently.
I don't think that intra-repository externals are really that special. A
lot of our users, especially those in big corporations use those
extensively - they often have one big repository with all their projects
as subfolders.
And for all those setups, it would really make sense to pin those
externals to the same revision the copy was made from.
Stefan
Received on 2015-02-16 20:48:52 CET