Hey all,
We've just implemented Subversion at our workplace, and after getting
everything running well together we ran into an odd problem last week.
One of our less experience team members inadvertently created an
svn:externals reference on a directory to a higher-level directory in the
same repository. This had the unfortunate effect of infinite recursion on
the directory, which in turn made updating difficult to say the least.
My multi-part question is:
1. Does a subversion working copy contain the reference to the repository
where it was checked-out from?
2. Assuming 1) is true, are there valid reasons why SVN would allow a repo
to have an svn:external reference to itself?
3. Assuming 2) is false, is there a design case for some sort of check on
the svn:external property to ensure it doesn't reference the current
repository?
WRT to 1), I'm guessing the alternative is that the SVN client rather than
the working copy retains the reference to the repo.
WRT to 3), There's only a major issue if the svn:external property
references a directory higher in the hierarchy than that which has the
svn:external property, which causes the infinite recursion.
I'll welcome any comments on the issue.
Regards,
Dave
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Received on 2009-10-27 16:23:52 CET