4 Dec
2008
4 Dec
'08
3:21 p.m.
Previously 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.
If only svn.zope.org had a trac-based browser, which does show those properties properly... Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.