> From: Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com>

> To: BRM <bm_witn...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "users@subversion.apache.org" <users@subversion.apache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:49 PM
> Subject: Re: Tagging svn:externals
> 
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:44 PM, BRM <bm_witn...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>  Won't work - it has to be committed somewhere or it won't be 
> built.
>> 
>>  Perhaps then you need a different tool.
>>  For example, git-svn[1] is might be what you want.
>> 
>>  When something is ready for QA it is pushed to a git repository for Jenkins 
> to pick up.
>>  How you change the externals in the process I'm not sure; but it would 
> at least give you
>>  a trackable repository that would mimick a modified working copy.
>> 
>>  Otherwise I think you're out of luck if you don't want to (i) 
> commit to trunk, or (ii) create a branch,
>>  but still want to track it in the repository somehow.
> 
> No, I think the choices are to tag from the working copy or commit a
> change after making the tag.  But neither seem like the tool is
> designed to do what I'd expect to be a common operation cleanly.

What do you mean?

Branching from a working copy is extremely easy:

$ svn copy . ^/path/to/tag/or/branch

It's a first-class operation in subversion.

Likewise, you can:

$ svn copy . ^/path/to/tag/or/branch
$ svn switch ^/path/to/tag/or/branch
...make modifications here..
$ svn commit

Ben

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