Suggestion: mention up front that external URLs must name directories
C. Michael Pilato
cmpilato at red-bean.com
Thu Jan 11 15:02:44 CST 2007
Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> I often see people on #svn who are surprised that they cannot create
> a svn:externals property whose value is a file. I think this change
> would alleviate that confusion:
>
> Index: ch-advanced-topics.xml
> ===================================================================
> --- ch-advanced-topics.xml (revision 2624)
> +++ ch-advanced-topics.xml (working copy)
> @@ -2321,7 +2321,7 @@
> <firstterm>externals definitions</firstterm>. An externals
> definition is a mapping of a local directory to the
> URL—and possibly a particular revision—of a
> - versioned object. In Subversion, you declare externals
> + versioned directory. In Subversion, you declare externals
> definitions in groups using the <literal>svn:externals</literal>
> property. You can create or modify this property using
> <command>svn propset</command> or <command>svn
>
+1. Will commit at first opportunity (if nobody beats me to it).
--
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato at red-bean.com>
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has
been found difficult; and left untried." -- G. K. Chesterton
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