Re: Externals: Multiple definitions for the same path

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:18 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>wrote:

> One question, though: is there any circumstance in which this
> functionality
> could be beneficial? What happens if, say, I have an externals URL that's
> referenced by one URL when I'm inside my corporate firewall, and a
> different
> URL otherwise?
>
> http://internal-only.company.com/svn/repos/my/external ext-wc
> https://externals-only.company.com/svn/repos/my/external ext-wc
>
> Does Subversion gracefully handle that, allowing the last working external
> in the list to be the one that "takes"?
>

I would be surprised if that is handled gracefully, and we added support
for relative externals to solve this problem anyway. So it seems like that
would be the solution.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
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