[Zope-dev] Subversion externals versus mirroring

[Jim Fulton]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Christian Theune<ct at gocept.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.

Sounds good to me.

Jim

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Jim Fulton