Re: Feature request: allow for relative working copy paths in svn:externals definition

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 07:58, Humm, Markus <Markus.Humm_at_de.ebmpapst.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> > While it is nice that you have concerns about my security in case I should have to deal with malicious servers,
>> > I would prefer to have a choice. Maybe some setting wich allows me, based on the server URL (or if that's too
>> > complicated for a start), to allow ../ in local externals paths or disallow this. With such a setting, SVN would
>> > seamlessly allow us to use our current directory layout while maintaining the benefits of atimic checkins.
>
>> Excuse me, but given the layout requirements you seek, can you get away with symlinks?
>
> I'm not sure symlinks under XP are powerfull enough and the use of them is not easy enough for my colloeagues.
> I'd really prefer a externals based solution.

True symlinks don't even exist on XP.
Received on 2012-03-02 14:47:11 CET