On 1/6/2011 5:41 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
Can I make a local (patched) branch of an svn:external? That way I could
pull updates as needed, but still retain access to the full commit history.
You'd need to manually (or some automated fashion) apply each commit
made to their repository to your own repository.
This is very tedious if they make a lot of commits.
And revision numbers between repositories wouldn't match up.
I don't understand what the real problem you want to solve is.
Maybe you want to browse their history without internet access?
If you want to browse their history without internet access, I would
recommend keeping an svnsync copy of their repository on your hard drive.
I think the idea is that he'd like to see the development history of
both the vendor and local changes as a continuous set of changes as you
would if they were in the same repository with log and diff working
across any points in time or branch versions. It seems like a
reasonable thing to want, but I don't think it is possible with subversion.
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Les Mikesell
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