Re: git-svn and svn:externals, was Re: Hackontest ideas?

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

quoted

 * handling of svn:externals using submodules

I doubt that this is easy.  Otherwise, Eric would have done it a long time 
ago.

Yeah, I guess is too large a project for Hackontest.
 

The main concern I have is to get the semantics right: AFAICT 
svn:externals has _no notion_ of "what is current".  It just _always_ 
fetches the HEAD.  Even if you check out an ancient revision in the 
"superproject".

If I understand correctly with version 1.5 svn:externals can be
specified using "peg revisions", so they could refer to some specific
revision of 'external', like git submodules.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland