Re: Finishing relative svn:externals

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Marc Haisenko wrote:

> On Thursday 19 July 2007 10:47, Blair Zajac wrote:
> > My proposal is to introduce the ^ as the repository root character, as
> > suggested by the regex anchor character, so
> >
> > ^branches/1.4.x
>
> Can we have that for the command line interface as well ?
> "svn merge ^branches/mybranch" would be soooo nice :-)

What base URL were you thinking that this short form -- ad potentially
others -- would be relative to (e.g. URL of any working copy on your
cwd)?

This particular version seems like it would be really useful for
switching branches for an existing WC.