Re: svn:externals using git submodules

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: May 1, 2007, 19:48 UTC
Message-ID: <200705012048.04817.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070501191703.GA25287@pe.Belkin>

On Tuesday 2007, May 01, Chris Shoemaker wrote:

> That's only true when the revision is not specified in the external.
> The repo you track may not do that, but it's not uncommon to do so.

It's been a while since I used subversion, and even longer since I used externals - is that a new feature? I used subversion since before version 1.0, so I often missed new features when they arrived.

> And, as I think you're pointing out, it's the only way to get any
> sort of reliable information about the relationship between the
> parent and the external.

Does subversion automatically update that fixed attachment when you update the submodule? I would have found that quite useful back then.

> I think it would probably be undesirable for git-svn to attempt to
> convert "floating" externals into well-versioned submodules, since
> they're not even well-versioned in the svn repo.  However, handling
> the "locked-down" externals is quite another thing.

Absolutely. If the information is available, then git is certainly capable of recording it. It sounds like subversion has a facility I didn't know exist, so I've been bad mouthing it more than I should. Oh well :-)

Andy

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