Hi,
Have a look at: http://groups.google.com/group/tortoisesvn/browse_thread/thread/4784f6ee042328f5?lnk=igtc
It's about the same thing, I asked for it in the TortoiseGroup and
this described the behaviour, which would explain why VisualSVN
wouldn't support it.
Cheers,
Gab
On 14 aug, 19:26, Stefan Küng <tortoise..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Ryan Phillips wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoise..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Ryan Phillips wrote:
> >>> Hi All,
>
> >>> It took me awhile, but I was able to switch my employer over to
> >>> subversion. We are mostly a Linux shop, but I have ran into a slight
> >>> discrepancy.
>
> >>> The command line svn tool doesn't recurse into svn:externals on an svn
> >>> merge. Everything is running SVN 1.5 and TortoiseSVN 1.5. We have the
> >>> typical repository layout with a trunk/ and branches/feature_1 folder.
> >>> When syncing the branch on Linux with svn merge everything works fine.
> >>> The externals directory modifications are _not_ part of the commit.
> >>> However, if a developer does a TortoiseSVN merge from the trunk to the
> >>> feature branch then modifications within the externals are picked up
> >>> into the merge commit.
>
> >>> According to the documentation for TortoiseSVN recursing into the
> >>> subdirectories is expected; however, the SVN red-bean book says that
> >>> the svn tools do not recurse except for 4 commands (checkout, status,
> >>> update, and one more). I've been using the cli for a long time. Is
> >>> committing a "merge" with Tortoise ok with svn:external modifications?
> >>> and does the merge tracking still work?
> >> Are you sure that the *merge* also included the externals? I seriously doubt
> >> that, because as you said Subversion does not do that, and TSVN uses the
> >> Subversion library to do the merge.
> >> Please check again, maybe some other operation made modifications to the
> >> externals.
>
> > Hi Stefan,
>
> > Thanks for replying.
>
> > I believe I was a little unclear. The TortoiseSVN merge did not bring
> > in merges into the external. The external had local working copy
> > modifications. After the merge, and upon the commit of the merge the
> > external was included within the commit set, since TortoiseSVN
> > defaults to including all externals in a commit. One has to unselect
> > the files in the external manually from what I can tell.
>
> Yes, that is a feature that was requested often: if the externals are
> from the same repository, then the commit will include them by default.
> Only if the externals are from a different repository (i.e., they have a
> different repository uuid), then the commit dialog won't show them.
>
> Stefan
>
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