From users-return-3695-apmail-subversion-users-archive=subversion.apache.org@subversion.apache.org Tue Jul 13 15:23:10 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-subversion-users-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: (qmail 13148 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2010 15:23:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 13 Jul 2010 15:23:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 24459 invoked by uid 500); 13 Jul 2010 15:23:09 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-subversion-users-archive@subversion.apache.org Received: (qmail 24419 invoked by uid 500); 13 Jul 2010 15:23:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@subversion.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list users@subversion.apache.org Received: (qmail 24412 invoked by uid 99); 13 Jul 2010 15:23:08 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:23:08 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=10.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [192.109.42.8] (HELO einhorn.in-berlin.de) (192.109.42.8) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:22:58 +0000 X-Envelope-From: stsp@stsp.name Received: from ted.stsp.name (ted.stsp.name [217.197.84.186]) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id o6DFMaCh029136 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:22:36 +0200 Received: from ted.stsp.name (stsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ted.stsp.name (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6DFMaEq015697; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:22:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from stsp@localhost) by ted.stsp.name (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o6DFMZvV025925; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:22:35 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:22:35 +0200 From: Stefan Sperling To: Les Mikesell Cc: Nico Kadel-Garcia , users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12 Message-ID: <20100713152235.GK13310@ted.stsp.name> Mail-Followup-To: Les Mikesell , Nico Kadel-Garcia , users@subversion.apache.org References: <4C3B3C09.9070301@orcaware.com> <4C3B9DA8.4070605@gmail.com> <4C3C5BF4.8000907@gmail.com> <20100713133545.GF13310@ted.stsp.name> <4C3C827B.9030205@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C3C827B.9030205@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:12:59AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > I meant it as a more general question, not just in the context of > externals. Is there some reason not to use the path@rev style for > every command or document that as the preferred method? There's no reason not to always use path@rev. You can use path@HEAD to get the default behaviour. In 1.6.5, we explicitly changed the svn CLI client to parse peg revisions in each of its URL or path arguments, and either evaluate them or discard them depending on whether a peg revision makes sense in the current context. This was done to help scripts, hudson jobs, and the like. Stefan