[Zope-dev] Subversion externals versus mirroring

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On Sep 9, 2009, at 15:59 , Sidnei da Silva wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Jens Vagelpohl<jens at dataflake.org>  
> wrote:
>> SVN 1.4 clients will work with SVN 1.5 repositories in general.  
>> However,
>> that's not the real issue here. The issue is the new-style externals
>> definitions that allow you to use "relative" paths. Those relative  
>> paths
>> will not work for SVN 1.4 clients.
>
> Is that based on an assumption or someone tried and verified that it
> doesnt work?

It doesn't. I tried.

jens