The next step is to create a generic, inter-VCS network interface :-).
Kevin Grover wrote on Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 15:13:30 -0800: > If someone wanted this and came up with an 'svn:externals-foreign' (or > svn:foreign-externals?) API of some sort, perhaps someone could get > figure out a mechanism for coding the steps needed to check out and > update those repositories, If so, an 'svn:foreign-externals' system > could be generically created (and probably have the backend commands > filed in for git, bz, cvs, etc..). Granted: it would depend on the > proper executables for the foreign vcs to be present, but it would be > generic and allow people to link to any vcs repository. > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 15:03, Ryan Schmidt > <subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> wrote: > > > > On Mar 7, 2011, at 16:20, Jean-Jacques Merillon wrote: > > > >> Le 7 mars 2011 à 19:54, Ryan Schmidt a écrit : > >> > >>>> All my repositories are on svn and I have a lot of svn:externals > >>>> property to use externals librarries. > >>>> I have to link my projet to an other project using mercurial, is it > >>>> possible to add an externals link to a Mercucial repository ? > >>> > >>> No, but the fact that this might be useful was recently discussed in this > >>> thread: > >>> > >>> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2011-02/0199.shtml > >> > >> Ok, thanks for your reply ! Sorry for duplicated question I did not find > >> this thread > >> So, do you know externals link to other repos (git, hg ...) will be > >> implemented ? > > > > I have no information about that, beyond what was in the aforementioned > > thread. It is currently not possible, there is currently no feature request > > about it in the issue tracker, and to my knowledge nobody has attempted to > > write any code to implement it. So I would not expect Subversion to gain > > this feature soon. > > > > > > > >
