Unfortunately no, as all the externals are in a 2 or three different
repositories, with the base project being in it's own repository.
Anthony Winner
Sr. Software Engineer, Insyde Software
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.levy_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:24 AM
To: anthony winner
Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Subject: 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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