On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > The next step is to create a generic, inter-VCS network interface :-).
WebDAV? /$ > > 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. >> > >> > >> > >> > >
