> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:32:49 -0500
> Subject: Re: Externals within the same repository
> From: andy.l...@gmail.com
> To: gaff...@live.com
> CC: users@subversion.apache.org
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:14, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote:
>>
>> Assume the following situation: There is a repository my_repo, structured
>> like this:
>>
>> my_repo
>> my_repo/trunk
>> my_repo/trunk/a
>> my_repo/trunk/a/file.h
>> my_repo/trunk/b
>>
>> where my_repo/trunk/b has an svn:external to import the contents of
>> my_repo/a.
>> That is, b will have the contents of a external-ed in.
>>
>> Is this valid and sound SVN?
>
> Yes, just be careful to avoid any recursive externals - having an
> external in a pointing at b, while having an external in b pointing at
> a, would probably result in your WC filling all available disk space.
> Last I knew, Subversion did not check for recursion in externals.
OK. But it does seem a bit weird, though. When doing a fresh check out
of this, all these "internal externals" do show up as "merged" in the
check out log.
As TortoiseSVN presents it:
---------
External C:\asa\my_repotrunk\a\file.h
Merged C:\asa\my_repotrunk\a\file.h
--------
Since this was a clean check out, there should not really be any merging
going on, so this message seems a bit confusing.
Any comments?
Asbjørn
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