On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, amol gole <moleman_24_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
>
Option 2 is supported, and in fact is the recommended method.
See:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.externals
Received on 2011-01-26 23:36:53 CET