On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt
<subversion-2010b_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 9, 2010, at 14:08, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
>> The allowable syntax for svn:externals is a bit unclear in the Redbook.
>>
>> Shouldn't I be able to set the svn:external to point to a location in
>> my active repository, such as the below settings?
>>
>> svn propset svn:externals "release-1 ^/tags/release-1" .
>>
>> I seem to be able to set such values, but updating with such values
>> fails miserably with the subversino-1.6.12, published from RPMforge on
>> RHEL 5 (for reference to the version I'm using).
>
> Try
>
> svn propset svn:externals "^/tags/release-1 release-1" .
On Subversion 1.6? I think not, and tested such. The syntax described
at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.externals.html
describes the precise reverse syntax, and it accepts this.
svn propset svn:externals "release-1
svn://svnserver/repo/tags/release-1".
What I wanted to do was have Subversion check out directories from
within the same repository, rooted to the top of the repository, so
that moving a tag or branch up or down wouldn't break the references.
I'd thought from the documentation about 'relative references' that it
would apply to the URL of the external repository, so that if the repo
is checked out as file:///, https:///, svn:///, etc. the URL's for
svn:externals downloading would be auto-munged appropriately.
Is this not available?
Received on 2010-07-10 00:13:46 CEST