Another minor issue: The sequence in which external definitions are applied on checkout/update is not explicitly
specified in the documentation.
The current behaviour should be documented and an according testcase provided.
Thoughts ?
On 06.09.2012 17:18, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Walter,
>
> I agree that this seems like a great opportunity for Subversion to tell
> folks they've done something that they probably don't mean to do. Of
> course, we don't want to break existing versioned files by erroring out if
> we encounter this already present. But we certainly could error out any
> time a new or modified svn:externals property that violates this constraint
> is about to be set on a directory.
>
> Feel free to file an issue in our tracker if you are able to do so,
> referencing this thread: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2012-09/0091.shtml
>
> 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"?
>
> -- C-Mike
>
> On 09/06/2012 11:02 AM, Walter Klust wrote:
>> When setting or modifying the svn:externals property it is possible to
>> specify multiple entries for the same path.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> svn propget svn:externals trunk
>>
>> https://svn-server:8080/svn/multi/extfolder1 barf
>> https://svn-server:8080/svn/multi/extfolder2 barf
>> https://svn-server:8080/svn/multi/extfolder1 barf
>> https://svn-server:8080/svn/multi/extfolder2 barf
>>
>> IMHO only one entry per path should be allowed.
>>
>> Would it make sense to implement a check in the command line client and
>> issue at least a warning if someone tries to commit this kind of property ?
>>
>>
>> Walter
>
>
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Received on 2012-09-07 14:58:57 CEST