Re: svn:externals with a fixed revision

Matthew Gregory wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is my first post to this mailing list as I've only just started to
> use SVN. I must say I'm getting on really well with it. I have a
> question about svn:extenals though.
>
> I've setup the svn:externals property so it has this: /"qooxdoo-sdk
> -r16997
> http://qooxdoo.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/qooxdoo/trunk/qooxdoo" /and
> it works as expected. The only thing I can't understand is when I do an
> update it always goes to qooxdoo.svn.sourceforge.net to check for
> updates. Surely it could just see that I already have r16997 locally
> unchanged and skip this? Or am I missing something?

http://svn.example.com/trunk -r123 is guaranteed to be the same on
Monday as it is on Tuesday! That's because there's an implicit @HEAD ie
http://svn.example.com/trunk@HEAD -r123

but
http://svn.example.com/trunk@123 should always remain constant.

Welcome to the spooky world of peg revisions.
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html

and here's a long discussion about it
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=103922

However, changing to that syntax probably won't stop it contacting the
server but you could give it a try.

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Received on 2008-12-18 14:35:35 CET