I recently had my subversion server die - the box, not subversion itself - and have been working through the recovery process. Part of that is going through and modifying a number of projects for the change in the URL - namely changing from a non-standard port for apache to a standard port. We have started using svn:externals in some projects, but did not use the relative path values - instead, specifying the whole URL; so I need to update the URLs in the svn:externals.
I know I can get the values using 'svn pget svn:externals'; but the SVN redbook recommends against using pset/propset to set the values. So, how do I set the values from a script? "svn help pset" seems to show a "-F" parameter for reading the values from a file. This seems like it would take care of the concern mentioned issue - that the externals are multi-line. If that is the case, then shouldn't the note say to use that parameter with pset or use pedit instead of flatly saying use pedit? Or is there another reason why I shouldn't use pset? TIA, Ben http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html
