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

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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> >  * handling of svn:externals using submodules
> 
> I doubt that this is easy.  Otherwise, Eric would have done it a long time 
> ago.

Yeah, I guess is too large a project for Hackontest.
 
> 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.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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