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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Blair Zajac <bl...@orcaware.com> on 2007/09/04 17:38:19 UTC

Re: Finishing relative svn:externals

Karl Fogel wrote:
> Christopher Key <cj...@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>> I was just wondering whether it might make more sense to instead
>> construct repository root relatives paths as,
>>
>> ^/branches/1.4.x
>>
>> It certainly seems to more intuitive to me.  '^' is a directory, just
>> as are '..', '.' and '~', and paths relative to them are constructed
>> as '../path', './path', '~/path', so why not treat '^' the same?
> 
> +1, I too think this would be more consistent.
> 
> -Karl

Sounds good.  We'll go with that.

Regards,
Blair

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Re: Finishing relative svn:externals

Posted by Blair Zajac <bl...@orcaware.com>.
Yes, it will be.

Regards,
Blair

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masaru tsuchiyama wrote:
> Will "relative svn:externals" be implemented before branching 1.5.x ?
> 
> Regards.
> Masaru
> 
> 2007/9/5, Blair Zajac <bl...@orcaware.com>:
>> Karl Fogel wrote:
>>> Christopher Key <cj...@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>>>> I was just wondering whether it might make more sense to instead
>>>> construct repository root relatives paths as,
>>>>
>>>> ^/branches/1.4.x
>>>>
>>>> It certainly seems to more intuitive to me.  '^' is a directory, just
>>>> as are '..', '.' and '~', and paths relative to them are constructed
>>>> as '../path', './path', '~/path', so why not treat '^' the same?
>>> +1, I too think this would be more consistent.
>>>
>>> -Karl
>> Sounds good.  We'll go with that.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Blair

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Re: Finishing relative svn:externals

Posted by masaru tsuchiyama <m....@gmail.com>.
Will "relative svn:externals" be implemented before branching 1.5.x ?

Regards.
Masaru

2007/9/5, Blair Zajac <bl...@orcaware.com>:
> Karl Fogel wrote:
> > Christopher Key <cj...@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> >> I was just wondering whether it might make more sense to instead
> >> construct repository root relatives paths as,
> >>
> >> ^/branches/1.4.x
> >>
> >> It certainly seems to more intuitive to me.  '^' is a directory, just
> >> as are '..', '.' and '~', and paths relative to them are constructed
> >> as '../path', './path', '~/path', so why not treat '^' the same?
> >
> > +1, I too think this would be more consistent.
> >
> > -Karl
>
> Sounds good.  We'll go with that.
>
> Regards,
> Blair
>
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