From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 15:22:28 GMT
Subject: Re: svn:externals using git submodules
Message-ID: <20070501152228.GF5942@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070501150724.GA20797@pe.Belkin>

Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net> wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:21:14AM +0100, Andy Parkins wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've done this by hand as a proof of concept I suspect it would need loads of 
> > work in git-svn to do it properly.  However, I thought I'd mention as part of 
> > my "success with submodules" reports.
> 
> For my part, I wonder if it can be simplified somehow; and I suspect
> it doesn't work well with svn:externals that specify a particular
> revision.

Actually that is an interesting point that Chris makes.  Isn't the
svn:externals property revision controlled on the parent directory?
So each change to it is actually recorded in the revision history
of the parent project.  And if every svn:externals URL included the
exact version of the other project to include, aren't svn:externals
then more-or-less like the subproject link support, except they
also include the URL?

-- 
Shawn.