[Zope-dev] Subversion externals versus mirroring

[Martijn Faassen]

Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Martijn Faassen<faassen at startifact.com> wrote:
>> Christian Theune wrote:
>>> 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.
>> I certainly still use a SVN 1.4.x client, being on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
>> (released just last year). I don't think SVN 1.5 is common enough yet to
>> make such a move possible.
> 
> We moved all the Plone repositories (including the rather massively
> used collective) to Subversion 1.5.6 a while ago. So far there have
> been no complaints by anyone. And as Robert noted you can use a
> Subversion 1.4 client with a 1.5 server just fine.
> 
> I think doing the server upgrade very soon (tm) shouldn't be a problem.

Ah, I perhaps misunderstood. I figured the resolving of relative 
externals would be a problem with a Subversion 1.4.x client.

Regards,

Martijn