Re: svn:externals within one repository: requested revision (-r BASE) and path

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2007, at 11:25, Peter SchueŸller wrote:
>> Is it possible to specify in an svn:external that it is from the same
>> repository without an access method specification like https:// or
>> file:///?
>>
>> This way if the repository is checked out via svn co http://... the
>> external would also be checked out via http://... if the repository is
>> checked out via file:/// the external could also be checked out
>> (usually much faster) via the file:/// access method.
>
> I believe that's this feature request, which looks like it has been
> implemented for Subversion 1.5:
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1336

That looks exactly like what we are needing! I read the various discussion threads
and I could not find out if a relative svn:external will have the same semantics
with regard to revisions like absolute externals (if you checkout an older revision, the external
will be checked out at the head revision).

I think it would be useful if relative externals would mean the relative path in the checked-out
revision of the parent directory (or if there is a possibility to specify that a relative external
inherits the revision from its parent in an "svn {update|checkout|export}"). Would it be even
possible to implement such a feature? (I'm not so much into the inner workings of subversion)

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Peter Schüller
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