On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:30, Asbjørn Sæbø <gaff...@live.com> wrote: > > > > ---------------------------------------- >> From: gaff...@live.com >> To: users@subversion.apache.org >> Subject: File externals before subversion 1.6 >> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:17:17 +0100 >> >> >> It seems, in one of our repositories, that Someone(TM) has been >> using svn:externals to include single files. This was done with >> version 1.4 of the SVN server, and it seems to have worked, even >> though I thought single file externals was first implemented for >> server version 1.6. How can this be? > > Or is the svn:exernals something that is handled by the client? > (We did have version 1.6 of the client, though.)
Property expansion, including externals, is always done by the client. The server just sees it as another property to version.
