Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com> writes:
> Here's my current thinking on behavior and implementation.
>
> - Support only intra-repository file externals. This will allow the
> svn client to effectively do a 'touch foo; svn add foo; svn switch URL
> foo' to have a external in the wc (those actual commands only work in
> a 1.5 client). So unlike a directory external, the .svn/entries file
> has entries for file externals. This is needed for supporting all the
> client commands on a file. I don't see modifying the existing
> directory behavior.
Before implementing this, it might be good to find out how often people
use intra-repository externals at all. My guess (uneducated, anecdotal,
etc) is: not much. Certainly most of the externals I set are coming
from other repositories...
-Karl
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Received on 2008-04-22 20:18:27 CEST