Re: Using a varable in an external URL

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 13:10, anthony winner
<anthony.winner_at_insydesw.com> wrote:
> Due to the nature of our build tree we have multiple externals pointing to
> folders in a single tag, i.e.
>
> Dir1   http://domain/repos/proj1/Tag/tagA/dir1
> Dir2   http://domain/repos/proj1/Tag/tagA/dir2
> Dir3   http://domain/repos/proj1/Tag/tagA/dir3
> Dir4   http://domain/repos/proj1/Tag/tagA/dir4
>
> Obviously this is a shortened version, we have > 10 folders like this, and
> when updating to a new tag, editing all the individual externals is a pain.
> What I would live to have a variable set the tag and do something like this:
>
> CurrentTag = "tagA"
> Dir1   http://domain/repos/proj1/Tag/$CurrentTag$/dir1
> Dir2   http://domain/repos/proj1/Tag/$CurrentTag$/dir2
> Dir3   http://domain/repos/proj1/Tag/$CurrentTag$/dir3
> Dir4   http://domain/repos/proj1/Tag/$CurrentTag$/dir4
>
>
> Is this possible, or is there some method to accomplish this that I have
> overlooked in the documentation?

Would using relative URLs in your externals (introduced in SVN 1.5)
alleviate this?
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.externals.html

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Received on 2009-05-26 19:25:42 CEST