Everything is working now as desired..I can set multiple externals with
specific rev numbers attached.
Thank you all for your help!
Regards.
Amad
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote on Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 12:29:32 -0600:
> >
> > On Feb 1, 2013, at 12:24, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > > On Feb 1, 2013, at 11:00, C M wrote:
> > >
> > >> I was able to set multiple external definitions using the --file
> option. Worked pretty well, actually considering how challenging everything
> else has been so far!
> > >>
> > >> One last question on this topic. I want to pin the external
> definition to a known revision using something this shortened command, but
> it's not working. The "-r 109" being the revision I want to pin to.
> > >>
> > >> c:\Temp\800>svn propset svn:externals -r 109 <path info> .
> > >>
> > >> svn: E205000: Cannot specify revision for setting versioned property
> 'svn:externals'
> > >
> > > The revision number to which you want to pin each external needs to be
> listed on the corresponding line of the svn:externals property. Read the
> documentation again; I recommend following the example after the paragraph
> which starts "Or, making use of the peg revision syntax".
> > >
> > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.html
> >
> > Or, in the example you gave above of wanting to pull a specific revision
> of just a single external, you just need quotes:
> >
> > svn propset svn:externals "-r 109 <path info>" .
> >
>
> You need a '--' argument here to prevent an argument parsing error.
>
> svn propset -- svn:externals "-r 109 <path info>" ./
>
> > Or better yet, using peg revision syntax:
> >
> > svn propset svn:externals "<path info>@109" .
> >
> >
>
Received on 2013-02-02 00:31:10 CET