Re: externals and date?

Benjamin Smith-Mannschott wrote on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 at 18:40 +0100:
>
> 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].

See r33412. It will be in 1.6.

Daniel

> 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?
>
> [1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.externals.html
>
> A work-around: Use svn log to get the revisions for that day. Pick the
> revision number that's most appropriate and use that.
>
> // Ben

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