Re: File externals regression in 1.7

[Stefano Crosta <st...@slicefactory.com>]

Jumping in after posting about this issue on collabnet forums: 
http://subversion.open.collab.net/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4&dsMessageId=433779

I totally understand that the "external into external" was an happy 
incident in 1.6, yet we do rely on it a lot in our code organization and 
deployment strategy (and apparently we are not alone!) so I would like 
to know if it is possible that this 'feature' will make it into 1.7 or 
if we should just stick (actually, go back) to 1.6

advanced usage of externals is actually the main reason we use svn 
rather than git, and the single '.svn' folder per repository was really 
a welcome killer feature of 1.7, so we would really love to be able to 
get the best of both 1.6 and 1.7 words.

Thanks a lot!