On Jan 31, 2011, at 01:36, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> Whats the benefit to using the peg revision format? [in an svn:externals >> definition] > > If the directory in question is ever moved, renamed or deleted in the future, > your external won't break.
Here are a couple examples of problems encountered by the MacPorts project because we were using operative revisions instead of peg revisions: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/20777 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/28074
