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Re: Scripting an svn:externals change

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2010b_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 18:36:28 -0500

On Sep 3, 2010, at 17:52, BRM wrote:

>> You cannot relocate or update existing working copies. If that's too
>> restrictive, then yes,
>> you'll have to skip the dump and load, just change the externals in HEAD, and
>> accept
>> that you can't check out a past revision and have the externals work.
>
> Having the history broken is not much of a problem that way. It just would have
> been nice to have it work well too.
> Though, couldn't I setup a script to modify the svn:externals via the pset
> --revprop option?
> Any how...I've got a lot of work ahead regardless.

No; svn:externals is a versioned property, not a revision property.
Received on 2010-09-04 01:37:35 CEST

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