Copy externals when branching

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Hi everybody,

I have a problem on how to handle svn:externals in case of repository
branching.

Let suppose I would like to have a repository structure like this:

- repository root
...trunk
......dir1
......dir2
......dirExt1 svn:externals -> https:/path/to/an/external/repository
......dir3
......dirExt2 svn:externals -> https:/path/to/another/external/repository
...tags
......v20090101
.........dir1
.........dir2
.........dirExt1 svn:externals -r12345 ->
https:/path/to/an/external/repository
.........etc.
...branches
......ourDev_20090101
.........dir1
.........dir2
.........dirExt1 (??)
.........dir3
.........dirExt2 (??)

My needs can be summarized as follows:

1) in trunk the svn:externals definitions should *always* point the HEAD
versions of the external
repositories -> AFAIK this is automatically done if I define "unversioned"
svn:externals

2) in any tag versioned svn:externals definitions have to be set: I have
just
discovered svncopy.pl, so this is not an issue either :D

3) now the challenge: if I define a branch (i.e. ourDev_20090101), I would
like
that some/all svn:externals definitions are replaced by actual directories
on *our* repository. On other
words, once I have branched our repository, the development of dirExt1
dirExt2 has to continue on *our* rep.
No references to external repositories should then appear. However, it would
be nice if later a merge back to them would be possible ;-)

Vendor branches may represent a solution, but they make more sense if you
stick your whole development to a stable version of the external libraries
(like in the example
given in the SVN-documentation).

I am wondering it there exists a smarter solution... Do you know one?

Thanks,
Max

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