[Zope-dev] Subversion externals versus mirroring

[Christian Theune]

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Hi,

a long-standing issue with our mirror of svn.zope.org are the absolute
URLs of externals: they require the repository to be available on a
given URL.

I propose to use relative URLs for externals. I guess a complete update
isn't necessary, but I'd like to improve the situation and start using
them from now on. Maybe we should also put a commit hook in place as a
safety belt?

However, this requires Subversion 1.5 which we are using on the server
already, but I don't know whether we assume clients are 1.5 or higher.

As a side effect this will also make svn/svn+ssh work in a nicer way
(IMHO) as the externals will follow the protocol of what you used for
checkout.

Christian

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