Am 2019-05-07 um 14:20 schrieb Branko Čibej:
On 07.05.2019 13:53, Osipov, Michael wrote:
Hi folks,
consider the following layout we need to solve for our legacy build:
.
|-- forms
|-- src
\-- inc
inc shall point to forms as external. Wenn doing "svn ps" with "forms
inc" or "./forms inc" I receive an error.
Just to clarify, you want this:
$ svn propset svn:externals './forms inc' .
Correct. Expanded it is:
/di1234/trunk
|-- forms
|-- src
\-- inc
that is, on the parent directory of 'forms'?
Of course, according to the help output [1] this is not possible. But
why can't I have same level externals? We currently apply the ugly
workaround by creating 'inc' and adding externals beneath that.
The reason you can't do that is that if we allowed the syntax you're
proposing, it will conflict with the old, pre-1.5 svn:externals format,
where the first parameter was the external name and the second was the
full URL.
I'd be happy if this compat-mode could be turned off via compile time
option to make the case work as expected. I don't know how much effort
that is since I don't know the Subversion codebase.
Michael
