On Jul 29, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Thomas Harold <thomas-li...@nybeta.com> wrote:
> http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.5.html#externals > > The relative URLs being allowed in svn:externals was a huge step forward. > But it still relies on the source path not ever changing. > > For example: > > /repos/zag foo/bar1 > > Which is fine as long as "zag" never changes its name. > > What if there was some sort of a GUID value for each object, created the > first time that the object is added to the repository, that could then be > used as the source URL? > > /repos/GUID:4e1243bd22c66e76c2ba9eddc1f91394e57f9f83 foo/bar1 > > Which would hopefully track /repos/zag as it changes from /repos/zag to > /repos/zig to /repos/forgreatjustice. > > (I suspect this all ties in with the copy/rename issue, which is itself a > rather hairy topic.) I wouldn't use/suggest this. It'd be difficult to determine where a GUID pointed, once created. > Is this also a moot point if you use the "pegged revision" style of > svn:externals where you prefix the property value with "-r ####"? That even > if "/repos/zag" changes to "/repos/zig" it won't matter because you're > pegging to a revision before the name change occured? Peg revision should be indicated by "@####", appended to the repos path. I'd prefer that syntax.
