Re: Can we use relative paths in svn:externals propset?

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:14 PM, David Bartmess <dingodave_at_edingo.net> wrote:
> Thanks, that explains what I needed to know... Relative paths using a parent
> (..) or absolute paths aren't handled. So it won't work with my system,
> since all the build files point to a parent "sandbox" directory, not the
> current directory, for the dependencies...

You can use relative paths, but they are relative to the repository.
For example if I had a directory at svn://repos/foo/bar/barfoo and it
had svn:externals = ../foobar, it would be referring to
svn://repos/foo/bar/foobar.

Maybe you should read up on the book a bit. It sounds like you're
confused about what svn:externals do.

They check out a repository directory that is located elsewhere in the
repository into your current working directory. Let's take the above
project. It would checkout in your working directory the directory
svn://repos/foo/bar/foobar under directory barfoo in your working
directory.

What it sounds like you have is a build issue. That is, you have your
build referring to code that is not in your current working directory,
but happens to be located in a parent directory. That has nothing to
do with the svn:external property.

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David Weintraub
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