RE: RE: Symlinks on Win32...

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Phippard <markp@softlanding.com> writes:

 Mark> OK, but that is what svn:externals already provides. There has
 Mark> been talk about enhancing the feature to better handle the case
 Mark> where it is pointing to a folder in the same repository. If
 Mark> these enhancements were implemented it would have the potential
 Mark> to remove several of the drawbacks to the current svn:externals
 Mark> feature.

 Mark> This issue does a good job summing up most of the current
 Mark> ideas:

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

The one obvious feature I didn't see mentioned there: an "external"
that is actually "internal" should participate in the atomicity of
non-external operations.

For example... I didn't bother to define externals in our new
Subversion repository to replace the CVS "modules" because then I
don't get atomic checkout/update, as far as I can tell from the
manual. And since that's one of the major benefits of Subversion over
CVS, it seemed rather pointless to throw that away. With "internals"
I could provide the analog of CVS modules *and* get the proper
Subversion style semantics.

           paul

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Received on Tue Jan 31 21:36:05 2006