Re: externals behavior with tags

Hi Ryan,

Whats the benefit to using the peg revision format?

Thanks,
AG

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From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2011a_at_ryandesign.com>
To: amol gole <moleman_24_at_yahoo.com>
Cc: Svn List <users_at_subversion.apache.org>
Sent: Sat, January 29, 2011 9:32:14 PM
Subject: Re: externals behavior with tags

On Jan 29, 2011, at 20:01, amol gole wrote:

> Thanks for the link. I knew the -rREV method was supported I just feel that
>doing that for every externally referenced file is a pain and one more thing to
>keep track of. Oh well.

Don't use "-rREV URL" (an operative revision) in an externals definition. Do use
"URL_at_REV" (a peg revision). I recommend you use a (peg) revision in every
external you define. I don't consider this more work; I consider it an absolute
necessity to unambiguously indicate what resource you're intending to obtain.

> Is there a way to search for all instances of an externally ref file in the
>entire repo? I think a "where used" type function is what im looking for.

I don't think so.

      
Received on 2011-01-31 05:36:10 CET