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

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:56:37PM +0200, 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.

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".

Usually, yes. But you could specify a specific revision with -r <rev>.

Or, for branches/tags, as they're paths, a correct url would suffice.

With the new 1.5, it is also possible to specify pegged revisions. Much
better, because otherwise subversion would require that the path existed
in the server in HEAD.

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