Previously Godefroid Chapelle wrote:
Tres Seaver wrote:
As an aside / vent: the reason for the now-removed EXTERNALS.txt files was to keep the canonical information about the externals in a diffable file: why subversion can't do a proper diff on its own line-oriented property is beyond me. Another benefit of an EXTERNALS.txt file was that it could be inspected in the web view of a directory, which isn't true for the svn:externals property itself.
Tres.
I want to support this. The noise made by keeping EXTERNALS.txt in svn is very low compared to the signal it provides.
I don't. EXTERNALS.txt is only useful if your tools suck. There are perfectly capable svn commit mailers and web browsers that show property changes correctly. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.