[Zope3-dev] Re: SVN weirdness

[Jim Fulton]

Personally, I just want to switch to using eggs rather than  
externals. :)

Jim

On Aug 10, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> Tres Seaver wrote:
>> Benji York wrote:
>>>> Benji York wrote:
>>>> [craziness]
>>>>
>>>> That'll teach me to reply to email before coffee.  Philipp  
>>>> explained the
>>>> observed behavior.
>>
>> And another argument for usning tags instead of 'branch +  
>> revision' for
>> externals:  if SVN doesn't remember that the external should be  
>> "frozen"
>> to the revision it was checked out with, then SVN is broken here.
>>
>> /me *still* wants a 'svn ln' command which creates a read-only "tag"
>> from the combination of branch and revision, but the SVN team is
>> uninterested in supporting release managers' use cases, it seems.
>
> I want that too! Actually, I would be happy with being able to give
> revision numbers human-readable aliases. Then an external could  
> still be
> something like:
>
>   testing -r zope.testing-0.2 svn://svn.zope.org/../zope/testing
>
> zope.testing-0.2 would be an alias for, say, 49234. Of course, this  
> also
> requires that svn was not broken with externals like it is now.
>
> Philipp
>
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