Re: svn:externals forces access protocol?

On Nov 9, 2005, at 01:05, Steve Folly wrote:

> I appreciate the URL part can't be relative because that could get
> messed up if I copy the directory somewhere else. However, I don't
> *really* want to have to specify svnserve://svn.example.com/ on
> every line. Just /trunk/APP1, /trunk/APP2, etc. would be nice, so
> that whoever is doing the checkout will still be able to use
> whichever protocol they initially used.
>
> So with the prospect of all developers using the same protocol, if
> we then decide to migrate from svnserve: to http: it means I'd have
> to trudge through all those svn:externals and change them.
>
> Is this just a current limitation, or am I missing something here?

Yes, this is a current limitation. Externals must be set using a
fully-qualified URL including the protocol. The feature request to
allow relative and absolute paths is here:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1336

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Received on Wed Nov 9 04:30:39 2005