Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-08-02 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 09:08:27AM -0700, Blair Zajac wrote: > On 07/13/2010 05:15 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > >I think we should discourage use of the old syntax in both the output > >of svn help and in the book. Diff to the help text below. > >Would this improve things? > > Sounds good to me. >

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
Give the man a cigar, he's captured what I was looking for. On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 05:57:24PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> I don't know why the syntax was reversed: it really looks like an >> entirely unnecessary parsing complicatio

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-13 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 04:52:45PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jul 13, 2010, at 08:35, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > > In the "-r rev" syntax, the rev is interpreted as a peg revision. > > See > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_wc/props.c?revision=961970&view=mar

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-13 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 13, 2010, at 08:35, Stefan Sperling wrote: > In the "-r rev" syntax, the rev is interpreted as a peg revision. > See > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_wc/props.c?revision=961970&view=markup > lines 3026 to 3092, inside function svn_wc_parse_externals_descrip

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-13 Thread Blair Zajac
On 07/13/2010 05:15 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 05:57:24PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: I don't know why the syntax was reversed: it really looks like an entirely unnecessary parsing complication. The new syntax looks more like 'svn checkout', so it's more natural to

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-13 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:12:59AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > I meant it as a more general question, not just in the context of > externals. Is there some reason not to use the p...@rev style for > every command or document that as the preferred method? There's no reason not to always use p...@

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/13/2010 8:35 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: When the code has beem moved around. There's a description at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s03.html which helps explain it. Mind you, I think if you're doing this kind of drilling back you're begging or pain. Yes I understand the situati

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-13 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 07:28:36AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >>On 7/12/2010 4:57 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >>>I understand that, and can understand that the peg revisions demanded > >>>a new syntax. > >>I re

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-13 Thread Les Mikesell
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 7/12/2010 4:57 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: I understand that, and can understand that the peg revisions demanded a new syntax. I realize that this is barely related to the topic, but is there any common scenario

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-13 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 05:57:24PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > I don't know why the syntax was reversed: it really looks like an > entirely unnecessary parsing complication. The new syntax looks more like 'svn checkout', so it's more natural to use when you're already used to svn checkout.

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 7/12/2010 4:57 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> > >> I understand that, and can understand that the peg revisions demanded >> a new syntax. > > I realize that this is barely related to the topic, but is there any common > scenario where y

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/12/2010 4:57 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > I understand that, and can understand that the peg revisions demanded a new syntax. I realize that this is barely related to the topic, but is there any common scenario where you wouldn't want to use peg revision syntax? In every situation I c

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-12 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Blair Zajac wrote: > On 07/12/2010 04:42 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt >>  wrote: >>> >>> On Jul 9, 2010, at 17:13, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-12 Thread Blair Zajac
On 07/12/2010 04:42 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jul 9, 2010, at 17:13, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Jul 9, 2010, at 14:08, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: What I wanted to do was have Subve

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-12 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jul 9, 2010, at 17:13, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> On Jul 9, 2010, at 14:08, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> What I wanted to do was have Subversion check out directories from >> within th

RE: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-11 Thread Keith Moore
-Original Message- From: Nico Kadel-Garcia [mailto:nka...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 10 July 2010 8:13 To: Ryan Schmidt Cc: Subversion Subject: Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12 On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 9, 2010, at 17:13, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On Jul 9, 2010, at 14:08, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >>> The allowable syntax for svn:externals is a bit unclear in the Redbook. >>> >>> Shouldn't I be able to set the svn:external to poin

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-09 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Jul 9, 2010, at 14:08, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> The allowable syntax for svn:externals is a bit unclear in the Redbook. >> >> Shouldn't I be able to set the svn:external to point to a location in >> my active repository, such as the b

Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-09 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 9, 2010, at 14:08, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > The allowable syntax for svn:externals is a bit unclear in the Redbook. > > Shouldn't I be able to set the svn:external to point to a location in > my active repository, such as the below settings? > >svn propset svn:externals "release-1

Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

2010-07-09 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
The allowable syntax for svn:externals is a bit unclear in the Redbook. Shouldn't I be able to set the svn:external to point to a location in my active repository, such as the below settings? svn propset svn:externals "release-1 ^/tags/release-1" . I seem to be able to set such values, but u