From: Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>,
Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-svn and svn:externals, was Re: Hackontest ideas?
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:08:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080729130823.GB30334@bit.office.eurotux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807291354130.4631@eeepc-johanness>
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:56:37PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
> > * handling of svn:externals using submodules
>
> I doubt that this is easy. Otherwise, Eric would have done it a long time
> ago.
>
> The main concern I have is to get the semantics right: AFAICT
> svn:externals has _no notion_ of "what is current". It just _always_
> fetches the HEAD. Even if you check out an ancient revision in the
> "superproject".
Usually, yes. But you could specify a specific revision with -r <rev>.
Or, for branches/tags, as they're paths, a correct url would suffice.
With the new 1.5, it is also possible to specify pegged revisions. Much
better, because otherwise subversion would require that the path existed
in the server in HEAD.
--
Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Eurotux Informática, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-29 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-29 0:01 Hackontest ideas? Petr Baudis
2008-07-29 0:10 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-07-29 5:31 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-07-29 8:35 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-29 0:34 ` Tarmigan
2008-07-29 0:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-29 1:14 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-29 1:55 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-29 2:02 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-29 2:12 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2008-07-29 1:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-29 9:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-29 11:56 ` git-svn and svn:externals, was " Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-29 12:28 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-29 13:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-29 16:08 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-29 13:08 ` Luciano Rocha [this message]
2008-07-29 13:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-03 22:48 ` Eric Wong
2008-08-03 23:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-03 23:36 ` Eric Wong
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