Re: iffy behaviour with SVN external and "svn up -r"

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

Kenneth Porter writes:
> On Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:00 PM +0000 Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> > I can understand that it may be tricky to implicitly perform the "svn
> > update -r" on the external, too, since that may be coming from a
> > different repository.
> 
> Did you raise this on one of the Subversion mailing lists?

yep, yesterday on users@subversion.

> Perhaps the external property takes a versioned URI? In which case you'd 
> need to update the property if you wanted the property to track the parent 
> directory's version and not stay anchored to the tip.

no, it's not a versioned URI -- just a normal repository-path URI. it
appears to be a design decision not to propagate "-r" requests to
externals (probably since there's no guarantee that an external
is in the same revision-space, ie. repository.)

--j.