On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 07:54:04AM +0000, Lorenz wrote: > 'svn help pg' on the other hand doen't gives not infomation about > externals at all, and it rejects '--include-externals'. > So no recursing into externals with 'svn propget' at all 8-(
Yes, propset/propget/proplist are a bit tricky. For example, what would happen if --include-externals was combined with the --revprop option? Keep in mind that SVN requires: "Must specify the revision as a number, a date or 'HEAD' when operating on a revision property" So what should happen if the user asks for a revprop recursively, and there are several repositories (with distinct revision number spaces) to query? What if -r NUMBER was also given? What if -r HEAD was given? Should the --include-externals and --revprop options be entirely mutually exclusive? That's one (of possibly) many questions that need to be asked before implementing such behaviour. It takes time to come up with a good design that interacts well with other existing command options. Recursing into externals is non-trivial to implement and has not been done everywhere. In scripts, you can work around this by finding all externals with 'svn status' first, and then calling propget on each.
