> On 21 February 2013 05:02, Kevin Jennings <kkjennings at sbcglobal dot net> wrote:
> > The reasons for asking in this forum is because Tortoise did
> > add the feature that I'm asking for...it just doesn't work if
> > you happen to have an svn_external link that also contains
> > another svn_external link.
>
> I don't know whether svncopy.pl supports that either. The readme
> doesn't show it in the examples.
>
After trying some more to get svncopy.pl to actually work (and not
quite succeeding) I can't say that it goes down more than one level
either...but just like the Tortoise feature, I interpreted the
svncopy.pl feature description as doing what I needed which is to
peg all externals, not just some of them.
>
> The only way you could do it would be to create a private tag of the
> external in its own repository with the sub-external pegged. In order
> to do that you need write access to the external's repo.
>
I don't know if write access to the external's repo is required to create
a private tag, but I'll take your word on it since you know it better than
me. It seems like I'm "just" asking for a way to create a permanent
snapshot of the state of a repository branch. I realize that Tortoise is
also constrained by the underlying capabilities of Subversion, but if there
is no good way to work around the problem then that's just the way that it is.
> >
> > I'd simply like this to be listed as a bug in a currently supported
> > feature of the tool that then gets fixed. I haven't heard yet why
> > it's not a bug nor have I heard why the current behavior that only
> > pegs 'top level' external is of practical value.
>
> I would describe it as a limitation rather than a bug. It would be
> nice to have but it is a much more difficult task than it appears to
> be at first sight.
>
Thanks for the explanation. Perhaps the limitation should be documented then
since the straightforward interpretation of the feature description is that
all of the externals would be pegged.
I'm also assuming by the lack of other replies that there is little support
for implementing this feature somehow and that I should probably start
searching for a version control tool that does...and that's too bad
because I really do like Tortoise SVN. Very nice tool.
Kevin
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