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Re: CRITICAL bug: svn:externals referring to a revision does not work if the referred resource is deleted or moved later.

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_red-bean.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:35:56 -0600

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Mike Dixon
<michael.dixon_at_denovosoftware.com> wrote:
> Gyorgy Foldvari wrote:
>>
>> echo "-r1 ^/trunk/A/D/H external/here" > ../f
>
> I'm not an svn developer, but if you had asked this on the users@ list, I
> would have told you the following:
>
> This isn't a bug; you need to use a peg revision rather than the -r syntax
> if you want to access paths that have since been moved or deleted. Try
> instead with:
>
>  "^/trunk/A/D/H_at_1 external/here".
>
> -Mike
>
Received on 2009-12-17 22:36:34 CET

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