On 1/26/2011 4:36 PM, NN Ott wrote:
I am a tortise svn user. I recently started trying the svn:externals
property to share files between projects. I got this feature to work
and I am happy with it so far.
My question is related to how tags should behave with such shared
files. I use tags as snapshots of my project in time. The tag is a
copy of my trunk/branch when I created it. However, if I am using
shared files via the externals property, these externally linked
files will not be static - they will change if I do an update on my
tag! This is definitely not the behavior I'm looking for.
Immediately I can think of 2 ways to "fix" this behavior of the tag
not being truly static:
1. In a tag, externally linked files loose their external link and
are now just copies of the files. (yuck)
2. In a tag, the svn:externals property is changed slightly such
that it points to the specific revision of the file when the tag was
created. (using -rREV url filename format)
Is this really a problem or is there another fix available that I am
unaware of?
Option 2 is supported, and in fact is the recommended method.
See:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.externals
And if you want the externals references on your trunk to float with the
trunk of the referenced item during development, one approach is to
always make an intermediate branch where you make these and any other
needed changes before making the tag.
--
Les Mikesell
[email protected]
