[svn.haxx.se] · SVN Dev · SVN Users · SVN Org · TSVN Dev · TSVN Users · Subclipse Dev · Subclipse Users · this month's index

Re: let's kill svn:externals

From: <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-07-24 00:58:10 CEST

Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> writes:

> ok, that's it, i've seen yet another post by someone with a problem
> with externals, and i've had it. i've been thinking about this for a
> while, and i'm tired of keeping quiet about it.
>
> can we just get rid of the svn:externals feature?

Unfortunately not. Turns out to be too useful to most folks. But the
Chicago boys have long been envisioning the future of svn:externals.
It goes something like this:

   1. Teach Subversion to handle linked working copy from various
       repositories (like CVS already does). By "linked", we mean
       that in a parent directory there is an actual entry for a given
       child subdirectory, but that child subdirectory comes from a
       different repository. To date, no part of Subversion's code
       allows this to happen. And when fully implemented, it means
       that *all* Subversion commands will know how to properly deal
       with performing their actions in light of a working copy that
       is assembled from various repositories (or repos locations).

   2. Make 'checkout' and 'export' the only Subversion subcommands
       that do a *thing* with externals. And what do they do? They
       checkout/export the external thing, and in the case of
       checkout, the external thing is linked to the current working
       copy.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Thu Jul 24 00:59:18 2003

This is an archived mail posted to the Subversion Dev mailing list.

This site is subject to the Apache Privacy Policy and the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy.