[Zope-dev] [Fwd: Zope Tests: 4 OK, 2 Failed]

[Godefroid Chapelle]

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.

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