Re: svn:externals feature(s)

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 11:35, William Lentz wrote:

> Would anyone else find these features useful? Right now CVS can do
> most of the above with modules but SVN and svn:externals is _much_
> harder and less intuitive to use.

Absolutely agreed. We've known about these shortcomings for a while,
and have some abstract plans to fix them. The design isn't crystal
clear yet: at the moment, we're thinking the "real" solution to the
problem is to simply allow completely unrelated working copies (from
unrelated repositories) to "link" to each other directly via entries
files. Then svn:externals essentially becomes something only used by
'svn checkout' to assemble a composite working copy. After you have the
working copy, all other commands just "work", and the svn:externals is
ignored.

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Received on Thu Mar 25 18:40:56 2004