Re: Remapping externals links for a specific working-copy

Blair Zajac wrote:
> John Peacock wrote:
>> Issac Goldstand wrote:
>>> I recently introducedan "svn:external" directory into
>>> several websites which contains common code. The external link is in
>>> our repository, but uses the https:// naming scheme. This works great
>>> for our developers, but when updating the server, we get an error
>>>
>>> svn: Unrecognized URL scheme for 'https://...'
>>>
>>> Is it possible to remap the external link to the equivalent file:///
>>> link on the working copies of the websites on the production server?
>>
>> Not that I'm aware of. The svn:external is a property of the working
>> copy itself, so any update will replace any smart trick you could pull
>> to switch to a different path.
>>
>> Is there some reason you can't use http:// for the svn:external path?
>> If you are concerned about making this a publicly accessible link, you
>> could bind to localhost only (since it appears from context that the
>> repository is local to the production server at least).
>>
>> Is there some reason you can't install a version of svn that supports
>> client-ssl on the production server (note that you could install it
>> into a non-path'd location, so only the production instance would see
>> that)?
>
> Subversion 1.5 supports relative externals, so you can do this easily.
> It doesn't remap the externals, it just uses the schema or repository
> root from the working copy to construct the external URL:
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.5_releasenotes.html#relative-externals
>

That's cool. It seems to work for my https:// working-copies, but the
file based copy isn't working... Any pointers?

Here's an attempt to update the staging server:

Output from cd /home/www/staging/staging.XXX.net ; /usr/local/bin/svn15
switch --non-interactive
file:///home/system/svnroot/XXX/tags/test-common2/ ..
D www/hello.html
A www/ielogo_white.gif
U www/index.html
  U www

Fetching external item into 'www/common'
svn: '/home/system/svnroot/common' is not a working copy
svn: Can't open file '/home/system/svnroot/common/.svn/entries': No such
file or directory

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issac_at_ligluryjr:/home/www/staging/staging.XXX.net$ svn15 propget 
svn:externals www
^/common/dev/ common
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