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

- From: Johannes Schindelin \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:04 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7362307
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7362201/t.md

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Hi,

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Luciano Rocha wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:56:37PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> > >  * handling of svn:externals using submodules
> > 
> > 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>.

I do not see how that helps defining the semantics for git-svn at all.

> 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.

As I already commented, the possibility (and for most svn repositories, 
the likelihood) that nothing is pegged makes this less helpful, either.

Ciao,
Dscho
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