repo structure change and external definitons

Hi,

say,
svn list http://server/repo/trunk/a/b/c
gives:
d/
in revision 100.

Then:
svn del http://server/repo/trunk/a/b/c/d
(r101)

Then, the checkout
svn co -p 100 http://server/repo/trunk/a/b/c/d
won't work, but with the peg revision
svn co http://server/repo/trunk/a/b/c/d@100
it does.

All external definitons using '-p 100 http://server/repo/trunk/a/b/c/d'
won't work anymore and need to be changed. That leeds to heavy
discussions cause some teams here using a lot of external definitons and
run into that problem.

We are using Subversion 1.5.5

Does a reason exist for that behaviour?
Is it a point of change in upcoming releases?
Is there a nice workaround?
Or, is the only solution to use always peg revisions in external
definitions?

Thanks.

Regards
Hartmut
Received on 2010-11-24 12:01:53 CET