[Zope-dev] Subversion externals versus mirroring

[Christian Theune]

On 09/09/2009 05:05 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 9, 2009, at 15:30 , Martijn Faassen wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, I perhaps misunderstood. I figured the resolving of relative
>>> externals would be a problem with a Subversion 1.4.x client.
>>
>> There's two different issues being confused here.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Okay, no objection to upgrading the server to 1.5 now.

That has been done a good while ago already (I was probably ambiguous in
my mail).

> But requiring 1.5 as clients will need some more discussion. I take it 
> there are two main reasons to do so:
> 
> * relative URLs in externals
> 
> * better merge tracking

For some interpretation of "better".


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