On 8/26/05, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Craig McElroy wrote:
>
> > On Aug 26, 2005, at 10:43 AM, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> >
> > > This problem is also a good reason why we need "relative" urls in
> > > svn:externals.
> >
> > +1
>
> but (AFAICT) this wouldn't solve the issue of someone moving the
> source on a remote site and, frankly, i don't see why that's
> subversion's problem.
>
> as i read it, an svn:externals reference can be an *absolute* URL. if
> someone at that URL starts moving things around, how is subversion
> supposed to handle that?
>
> it seems that's a server-side screwup, not a subversion issue.
>
The recent SVN proxy server proposal might help with this.
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=358724
Might also be a good reason for people to start working on it.
Josh
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Received on Fri Aug 26 18:30:07 2005