RE: Externals using absolute path on Windows

2012-04-23 Thread David Hickman
-Original Message- The issue was fixed by making Windows behave like Unix and so give an "invalid property" error rather than an assert. Adding support for absolute paths is not currently planned due to the security issue. -- Philip Ah ok, it was my interpretation of the bu

RE: Externals using absolute path on Windows

2012-04-23 Thread David Hickman
David Hickman writes: > Is anyone aware of any work arounds for issue number 4073? I guess > using relative paths is likely to work but that would require changes > to a number of our projects that we would rather not tackle at this > time. Are there any special character

RE: Externals using absolute path on Windows

2012-04-23 Thread David Hickman
on Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:59 AM, David Hickman mailto:david.hick...@audleytravel.com>> wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to make a plan for migrating some of our source code to SVN and am looking at using externals to deal with some of our code that is shared between libraries. In doing

Externals using absolute path on Windows

2012-04-23 Thread David Hickman
Hi All, I'm trying to make a plan for migrating some of our source code to SVN and am looking at using externals to deal with some of our code that is shared between libraries. In doing this I have come across the issue number 4073 (Assert on Windows absolute paths in svn:externals) which is p