Re: git-svn and svn:externals, was Re: Hackontest ideas?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 29, 2008, 13:04 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807291502450.4631@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <200807291428.32072.jnareb@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> > >  * handling of svn:externals using submodules
> > 
> > The main concern I have is to get the semantics right: AFAICT 
> > svn:externals has _no notion_ of "what is current".  It just _always_ 
> > fetches the HEAD.  Even if you check out an ancient revision in the 
> > "superproject".
> 
> If I understand correctly with version 1.5 svn:externals can be 
> specified using "peg revisions", so they could refer to some specific 
> revision of 'external', like git submodules.

... which only means that if they had done that from the beginning, it the git-svn enhancement would be easy.

But as they did not have it from the beginning, anybody tackling git-svn and svn:externals will have to come up with sensible semantics for the hard case.

Ciao, Dscho