Re: Finishing relative svn:externals

I'm a lurker on this list and I wouldn't normally presume to comment,
but something in your post aroused my curiosity.

On 19 Jul 2007, at 09:47, Blair Zajac wrote:

> I'm picking up feature to support relative URLs in svn:externals:
> 1) Relative to the current directory
>
> You never pull an external from a subdirectory where you are, you
> always go up, so relative URLs will always start with a ..

Why not? I can even think of a use-case i.e. to flatten the
directory hierarchy of a working copy. e.g.

path/to/a/really/deeply/nested/but/useful_component useful_component

I realise that with a normal recursive checkout you'll get
"useful_component" appearing twice in in your working copy hierarchy,
but it's not as if that can't happen with ../path or even absolute
URLs.

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Received on Thu Jul 19 14:16:18 2007