Thanks for the link. I knew the -rREV method was supported I just feel that doing that for every externally referenced file is a pain and one more thing to keep track of. Oh well.
Is there a way to search for all instances of an externally ref file in the entire repo? I think a "where used" type function is what im looking for. -AG ________________________________ From: NN Ott <nonot...@gmail.com>; To: amol gole <moleman...@yahoo.com>; Cc: <users@subversion.apache.org>; Subject: Re: externals behavior with tags Sent: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 10:36:13 PM On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, amol gole <moleman...@yahoo.com> 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
