Re: Question about externals

On Jan 21, 2008 7:19 AM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Robert Dailey wrote:
> > Ah, I must have missed when you explained that exception. Thanks for
> > reiterating. However, I don't necessarily agree that externals under the
> > same repository don't appear when they're not directly under a versioned
> > folder. Is there a specific reason for this? Would this be a question
> for
> > the Subversion mailing list?
>
> Yes, they're not shown because they can't be committed with the other
> changes: a commit *requires* a versioned parent directory.
>

I wonder if it would be possible for SVN to add .svn folders to each level
of the external folder path. For example:

foo/bar http://svn.blah.com/....

would result in a foo folder with the following directories:

.svn
bar

In this case, 'foo' isn't really a versioned folder, but it acts as one
since it has a .svn folder in it. Again, this is definitely a topic for the
Subversion mailing list, However I'm curious as to your opinions on this
idea Stefan.

Thanks for helping out.
Received on 2008-01-21 17:10:06 CET