On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:59 AM, David Hickman < david.hick...@audleytravel.com> wrote:
> Hi All,**** > > ** ** > > I’m trying to make a plan for migrating some of our source code to SVN and > am looking at using externals to deal with some of our code that is shared > between libraries. In doing this I have come across the issue number 4073 > (Assert on Windows absolute paths in svn:externals) which is preventing me > from being able to map our externals to absolute paths (we are all Windows > based machines here).**** > > ** ** > > The link for the issue is below:**** > > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4073**** > > ** ** > > Is anyone aware of any work arounds for issue number 4073? I guess using > relative paths is likely to work but that would require changes to a number > of our projects that we would rather not tackle at this time. Are there > any special characters or special methods of formatting the path that I can > use to get the externals to work? If not does anyone have any idea about > the timescales for the version in which this issue is likely to be resolved? > **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > If any more details are needed then please just let me know.**** > > > You didn't mention *which* Subversion codebase or binary you're using. Check. Then test it with TortoiseSVN: that will let you know if it's fixed in the current 1.7.4 codebases, as hinted by that bug report.
