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Re: externals behavior with tags

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2011a_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:52:41 -0600

On Jan 31, 2011, at 01:36, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>> Whats the benefit to using the peg revision format? [in an svn:externals definition]
>
> If the directory in question is ever moved, renamed or deleted in the future, your external won't break.

Here are a couple examples of problems encountered by the MacPorts project because we were using operative revisions instead of peg revisions:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/20777

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/28074
Received on 2011-01-31 08:53:22 CET

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