Re: ok to extend svn:externals syntax?

2011-11-14 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Neels J Hofmeyr ne...@elego.de wrote: On 11/11/2011 11:41 AM, Julian Foad wrote: Neels J Hofmeyr wrote: I think there is general agreement (to the degree of common sense?) that file and dir externals should behave the same way. +1 to that. I would be

Re: ok to extend svn:externals syntax? -- was: Re: AW: [PATCH] commit --include-externals (v2)

2011-11-13 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Neels J Hofmeyr wrote on Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 21:34:30 +0100: It was suggested to extend the svn:externals syntax, adding a flag that marks externals that should behave differently. By now this seems to me to be the best way out. What would that look like? [-rN] [-c] URL@P PATH -c =

Re: ok to extend svn:externals syntax? -- was: Re: AW: [PATCH] commit --include-externals (v2)

2011-11-11 Thread Julian Foad
Neels J Hofmeyr wrote: I think there is general agreement (to the degree of common sense?) that file and dir externals should behave the same way. +1 to that. I would be fine with keeping current trunk: it changes file externals' default behavior, so that they are treated like dir

ok to extend svn:externals syntax? -- was: Re: AW: [PATCH] commit --include-externals (v2)

2011-11-10 Thread Neels J Hofmeyr
On 11/10/2011 07:10 PM, C. Michael Pilato wrote: As a community, we need to decide how we will handle file externals in general. Their clever implementation invites inconsistency. I think there is general agreement (to the degree of common sense?) that file and dir externals should behave

Re: ok to extend svn:externals syntax? -- was: Re: AW: [PATCH] commit --include-externals (v2)

2011-11-10 Thread C. Michael Pilato
On 11/10/2011 03:34 PM, Neels J Hofmeyr wrote: It was suggested to extend the svn:externals syntax, adding a flag that marks externals that should behave differently. By now this seems to me to be the best way out. What would that look like? The next change we make to the externals syntax

Re: ok to extend svn:externals syntax? -- was: Re: AW: [PATCH] commit --include-externals (v2)

2011-11-10 Thread Neels J Hofmeyr
On 11/10/2011 09:39 PM, C. Michael Pilato wrote: The next change we make to the externals syntax needs to be to add an explicit #format = 3 header to it so we can stop trying to deduce the format the user intended! now that's cumbersome. a footer would be much nicer. ;) ~Neels