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Re: TortoiseSVN 1.6.5 and relative externals?

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:42:30 -0400

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 15:33, Dan Stromberg <dstromberglists_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I find it hard to imagine that it won't, but does TortoiseSVN 1.6.5
> support (without untoward problems) relative externals pointing at
> individual files when used with an older (1.4.x most likely)
> repository?
>
> I'm pretty sure that older versions of Tortoise supported absolute
> externals pointing at directories, though I've always just used the
> command line client.
>
> I'm getting some resistance on an SVN client upgrade, so it'd need to
> work quite smoothly if I'm going to be able to get it to happen.

Externals are just properties stored in the repository. Interpretation
is left strictly to the client. Newer client and older server will
work fine.

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