Am 2019-05-07 um 14:57 schrieb Branko Čibej:
On 07.05.2019 14:25, Osipov, Michael wrote:
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.
Well, I would be quite unhappy with that because then every time someone
reported a problem with externals, we'd have to ask how they compiled
their client ... and the answer would probably be "I don't know."
One simply doesn't design features that way. :)
Fair enough ;-)
Any chances that this will go way with the next LTS release? 1.5 is
really really old...
If your clients are UNIX-ish machines, you can commit 'inc' as a symlink
to 'forms'. Or creating the link (even on Windows) could be part of a
script that prepares the working copy for your legacy build.
The software runs on HP-UX only, so yes we have real UNIX. We have also
considered symlinks, but wanted actually the portable -- Subversion -- way.
Michael
