Re: Recurse into same-repos externals at commit time.

On 08/29/2011 11:45 AM, Bert Huijben wrote:
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: C. Michael Pilato [mailto:cmpilato_at_collab.net]
>> Sent: maandag 29 augustus 2011 17:40
>> To: Neels J Hofmeyr
>> Cc: Subversion Development
>> Subject: Recurse into same-repos externals at commit time. (was: [PATCH]
>> don't recursively-commit pegged file externals)
>>
>> On 08/29/2011 11:33 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>>> ### It is also debatable if we should also skip *un*pegged file externals
>>>> from recursion, just like we do with dir externals.
>>>
>>> I tend to lobby for treatment of file externals more consistently with
>>> directory externals. But now that our commit crawler can handle multi-WC
>>> commits, we could probably enable commit recursion into directory
>> externals
>>> which are pulled from the same repository as the primary one. (Maybe
>> Bert
>>> has some thoughts about this?)
>>
>> See http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1167 (circa 2003).
>>
>> This would actually be a pretty cool to make happen for 1.8.
>>
>> What might the UI look like? Would we just skip (with a notification) any
>> externals pulled from a foreign repository?
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> Personally, I don't think we should change the default behavior of not committing the externals with the parent.
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> I have no problem with adding an optional behavior, but I think the user should somehow choose to add them to the commit or it would surprise users and scripts that don't expect the current behavior to change.
> (That is why I didn't add this part of the feature request)

No sweat. 'svn commit --include-externals' sounds like a fine plan.

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