Re: ill-logic of externals handing with explicit --revision

Dear Karl,

>> It seems that svn (including 1.5) does not propagate explicit
>> command-line --revision when following svn:external links. Although it
>> makes sense for distinct repositories, or when explicit revisions are
>> required in the external link, but there are two cases where a
>> different behavior would help:
>> - if the external link is directly in the *same* repository
>> - if the --revision is a date (-r {2008-01-01}).
>>
>> [...]
>
> Meaning it should be forwarded whenever the svn:external line in
> question does not already have a -r option?
>
> That is: whenever an explicit revision is passed to a checkout or
> update, any svn:externals should also be checked out or updated using
> the same revision number *unless* they already have an explicitly
> specified revision of their own.

Yes, if it is in the *same* repository where the revision number makes
sense.

The current status is that when checking out at a revision,
"svn:externals"-linked subprojects are extracted at the latest revision
anyway.

> (This is separate from supporting -r{DATE} syntax in svn:externals. In
> fact, I'm kind of surprised we don't already. Are you sure we don't --
> have you tried it?)

Yes.

svn pset svn:externals 'foo -r {2007-01-01} http://foo' .
svn: Invalid revision number found parsing '{2007-01-01}'

svn pset svn:externals 'foo -r{2007-01-01} http://foo' .
svn: Invalid revision number found parsing '{2007-01-01}'

But maybe I got the syntax wrong?

-- 
Fabien.
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