> The 'external' just tells SVN to maintain a working copy for the given
URL
> and
> revision in the current folder. Updating in trunk therefore updates
the WC
> to
> the given URL and revision. However, inside, this is just a normal
working
> copy, so if you update inside, you are not updating to a specific
revision
> but to HEAD instead.
I completely forgot that's how subversion worked. I just expected the
revision to be sticky for some reason without even thinking about it.
>
> > Is there something that I'm doing wrong, is this just how it works,
or
> > is this a bug?
>
> I'd say this is as expected, though I agree it could be better. ;)
>
> Suggestion: if r125 is something special, you could give this revision
a
> tag
> and then direct the external to it. It would mean that the external
still
> always is updated to head, but the content shouldn't change.
>
> Replace
> MyExternal -r 125 https://ourserver/path/to/repo/sub/folder
> with
> MyExternal https://ourserver/path/to/repo/sub/tags/folder-v125
>
Using your suggestion, that's pretty much exactly what I did. There were
a lot of files, so I keep having to remind myself that copies are cheap!
I agree that the whole externals thing could use some polish. It's
probably good that I switched to using a tag instead of a revision, that
way when we tag releases, we'll have the correct external code, rather
then HEAD. That's another area externals could be better.
Anyways, thanks for the help!
Regards,
Daniel
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