svn ls i.c.m svn:externals

[Chris Blokland <ch...@gmail.com>]

Hello,

As I have spoken to danielsh in the svn channel @ freenode I came up with
the following question:

"Why are there no svn:externals shown when performing svn ls command"

Maybe some mastermind has a good reason for this but from my opnion it
could be confusing.
>From my point of view it would be nice to have the externals shown in
listing command but with some special flag (X?) so it is clear that you are
looking at an external resource.

Thanks for reading.

Regards,
Chris.

Re: svn ls i.c.m svn:externals

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Feb 25, 2012, at 08:44, Chris Blokland wrote:

> As I have spoken to danielsh in the svn channel @ freenode I came up with the following question:
> 
> "Why are there no svn:externals shown when performing svn ls command"
> 
> Maybe some mastermind has a good reason for this

Well, svn ls shows things that are in the repository; externals are not in the repository at that point. Instead, there's only a property, saying that, were a client to check out that repository location, it should also check out another working copy of this other thing from this other location.

> but from my opnion it could be confusing.
> From my point of view it would be nice to have the externals shown in listing command but with some special flag (X?) so it is clear that you are looking at an external resource.

Indeed it might be nice. But, the above explains why it doesn't happen today. I'm not sure how easy it would be to add this capability, or whether it is generally desired to do so.