Re: tunneling & svn:externals issue?

[Patrick Sunter <pa...@vpac.org>]

Hi guys, haven't had any takers for my question below on "users", and would 
really appreciate it if you guys could take a look at it. I imagine its an issue 
others may face too.

Patrick Sunter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some of our developers live behind a http proxy that doesn't allow all 
> of the HTTP methods that subversion needs... thus we use the ssh port 
> forwarding approach described in the FAQ at 
> http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#paranoid, which works fine.
> 
> However, we also want to use svn:externals so that several of our 
> projects can automatically check out a shared module of code, and the 2 
> features don't seem to work together.
> 
> To illustrate:
> in the repository directory http://rd01.vpac.org/svn/StGermain/trunk, I 
> set the svn:externals property to:
> spmodeldata http://rd01.vpac.org/svn/SPModel/trunk/data
> All good so far, for those of us connecting directly it checks out the 
> requested URL into an "spmodeldata" subdirectory.
> 
> But if someone is port-forwarding, so e.g. they have checked out the 
> StGermain repository through the url 
> http://localhost:8888/svn/StGermain/trunk,
> then they will be unable to fetch the svn:external due to the 
> aforementioned http proxy server problem when svn tries to grab it 
> through http directly.
> 
> what we'd like to happen is for the 
> http://rd01.vpac.org/svn/SPModel/trunk/data in the svn:externals to be 
> 'translated' to http://localhost:8888/svn/SPModel/trunk/data 
> automatically. Does svn have support for this? I couldn't find any 
> documentation on it, or any relevant mailing list messages.
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
> cheers, Patrick.
> 
> P.S. There was something in the FAQ page above that might be related:
> "Joe Orton notes:
> The server is sensitive to the hostname used in the Destination header
> in MOVE and COPY requests, so you have to be a little careful here - a
> "ServerAlias localhost" may be required to get this working properly."
> 
> but I'm not super apache savvy so it didn't really click with me.
> 


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RE: Re: tunneling & svn:externals issue?

[James Mountifield <jm...@collab.net>]

This thread is very old, and this issue has been addressed (but not in
this list as it is the Subversion Development list, not Users list).

Assuming you are using a 1.5 or later client look up relative externals
here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.externals.html

James




-----Original Message-----
From: blackhole@collab.net [mailto:blackhole@collab.net] 
Sent: 03 February 2009 12:53
To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: RE: Re: tunneling & svn:externals issue?

Yes, I am also trying to figure this out...

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RE: Re: tunneling & svn:externals issue?

[bl...@collab.net]

Yes, I am also trying to figure this out...

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