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 with such shared files. I > use tags as snapshots of my project in time. The tag is a copy of my > trunk/branch when I created it. However, if I am using shared files via the > externals property, these externally linked files will not be static - they > will change if I do an update on my tag! This is definitely not the behavior > I'm looking for. > > Immediately I can think of 2 ways to "fix" this behavior of the tag not > being truly static: > 1. In a tag, externally linked files loose their external link and are now > just copies of the files. (yuck) > 2. In a tag, the svn:externals property is changed slightly such that it > points to the specific revision of the file when the tag was created. (using > -rREV url filename format) > > Is this really a problem or is there another fix available that I am > unaware of? > > 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
