Of course, there are always  ways to break relative references, in the
same way symbolic links with  a relative destination may break after a
directory restructuring.   But even absolute URLs can  break: the host
being renamed  (e.g.  a  company being renamed;  an OSS  project being
renamed); the  /path/to/repos being moved, etc.  The  more common case
may be different URL schemes  (http? https? svn?) being used depending
on  whether you're on  the Internet  or Intranet.   I think  we should
leave it up to the end-users to resolve the potential problems, rather
than forbidding relative URLs in svn:externals.


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Sau Dan LEE                     §õ¦u´°(Big5)                    ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) 

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