externals behavior with tags

I am a tortise svn user. I recently started trying the svn:externals property to
share files between projects. I got this feature to work and I am happy with it
so far.

My question is related to how tags should behave with such shared files. I use
tags as snapshots of my project in time. The tag is a copy of my trunk/branch
when I created it. However, if I am using shared files via the externals
property, these externally linked files will not be static - they will change if
I do an update on my tag! This is definitely not the behavior I'm looking for.

Immediately I can think of 2 ways to "fix" this behavior of the tag not being
truly static:
1. In a tag, externally linked files loose their external link and are now just
copies of the files. (yuck)
2. In a tag, the svn:externals property is changed slightly such that it points
to the specific revision of the file when the tag was created. (using -rREV url
filename format)

Is this really a problem or is there another fix available that I am unaware of?

Thanks,
AG

      
Received on 2011-01-26 23:10:30 CET