RE: externals behavior with tags

2011-02-01 Thread Bob Archer
Option 2 is supported, and in fact is the recommended method. See: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn- book.html#svn.advanced.externals And if you want the externals references on your trunk to float with the trunk of the referenced item during development, one approach is

Re: externals behavior with tags

2011-01-30 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 31, 2011, at 01:36, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Whats the benefit to using the peg revision format? [in an svn:externals definition] If the directory in question is ever moved, renamed or deleted in the future, your external won't break. Here are a couple examples of problems encountered

Re: externals behavior with tags

2011-01-29 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jan 29, 2011, at 20:01, amol gole wrote: Thanks for the link. I knew the -rREV method was supported I just feel that doing that for every externally referenced file is a pain and one more thing to keep track of. Oh well. Don't use -rREV URL (an operative revision) in an externals

Re: externals behavior with tags

2011-01-26 Thread NN Ott
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, amol gole moleman...@yahoo.com wrote: I am a tortise svn user. I recently started trying the svn:externals property to share files between projects. I got this feature to work and I am happy with it so far. My question is related to how tags should behave

Re: externals behavior with tags

2011-01-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/26/2011 4:36 PM, NN Ott wrote: I am a tortise svn user. I recently started trying the svn:externals property to share files between projects. I got this feature to work and I am happy with it so far. My question is related to how tags should behave with such shared