Re: Tagging svn:externals

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:44 PM, BRM <bm_witness_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Won't work - it has to be committed somewhere or it won't be built.
>
> Perhaps then you need a different tool.
> For example, git-svn[1] is might be what you want.
>
> When something is ready for QA it is pushed to a git repository for Jenkins to pick up.
> How you change the externals in the process I'm not sure; but it would at least give you
> a trackable repository that would mimick a modified working copy.
>
> Otherwise I think you're out of luck if you don't want to (i) commit to trunk, or (ii) create a branch,
> but still want to track it in the repository somehow.

No, I think the choices are to tag from the working copy or commit a
change after making the tag. But neither seem like the tool is
designed to do what I'd expect to be a common operation cleanly.

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  Les Mikesell
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