Re: externals and date?

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 13:40, Benjamin Smith-Mannschott
<bsmith.occs_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 27, 2008, at 13:18, Martin Schröder wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> how do I enter a date with svn:externals? All my trials (e.g.
>> -r{2008-10-27}) get rejected. :-(
>
> I don't think using a date to peg an svn:external is intended to work [1].
> What would you expect such a date to mean? If there are multiple commits on
> that day, which one should subversion pick? Doesn't this ambiguity bother
> you?

I had the exact same thought, but as I read the output of svn help
propset, I think you'd get the revision which existed at the beginning
of that date, similar to how svn log -r{DATE} works.

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