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Re: svn:externals - question: changed (external) hostname => DEAD revisions?

From: Holger Stratmann <tigris_at_finch.de>
Date: 2005-08-27 17:01:53 CEST

((more) complete) quote(s) below :-))

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>frankly, i don't see why that's subversion's problem.
>
Agreed (but ...)

>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?
>
Of course SubVersion cannot handle that in a useful way *automatically*
- and I'm not asking it to.
My problem is this: The external change can render a large part of my
history unusable (!) and there is currently no way to fix it! Even manually!
(ok, I haven't checked that yet: I can probably dump it, modify lots of
stuff and reload it - imagine a large repository with many tags and
branches... ouch...)

Holger

P.S.: See my next mail RFE/RFC for more details :-)

Robert P. J. Day 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.
>
>rday
>
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