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 -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html