On Mar 21, 2013, at 18:27, luis montes wrote: > Is it possible to know the base revision on a svn: external from a pre-commit > hook script? If the external changes with the current transaction I figured I > could possibly parse the svnlook diff output, but what if it does not change > with the current transaction? I understand that information is kept on the > client, so does the client send it to the server? For each external?
I don't believe the client sends that information to the server. If you know which items have svn:externals properties, you can inspect their properties to see what the current value is. Of course, the property value might not declare a revision.