-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 06.10.2011 22:28, Neels J Hofmeyr wrote: > This table is / would be very useful if one tries to find all externals > defined or checked out in a given subtree, without having to first find and > then parse all externals skels. > > But in fact it is little more than a cache for svn:externals props. It > duplicates information in a way. But it adds the knowledge of exactly which > repository and relpath an external is from (stores URLs in repos-root and > repos-relpath, readily parsed from the various formats found in > svn:externals definitions).
Answer's simple: never store the svn:externals property with the other props, always parse it into and read it from the EXTERNALS table. After all, it /is/ a magic property. This can be a completely wc-local implementation-specific thing. - -- Brane -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJOkGo6AAoJECm4ktDIYoUByywIAIwkZNnkBNP1A2YVWe2UcATs 1BXzfnooTowbdCIjgWtXD1xncpiv/+VrcH92yPg5CfuP9V++T5fSrkymRxWqt59y ls6U50Z9HY2s+xoj3tiKpl7eUn6mBsYc6YdGkqbXg2GVGa8poWIKAGSodPm/LMOt CsfjpUXbrx34573KFDKL7oKcr16alR/mrzhQHwOFVsAbM41yvFm+TEVnzxLhTYWe jlwdWiQecPZOpjPfOWVduD8xFEKGJu2ecLt4PLV6YTnCKZH3S9JgleVX13hFIsIw iHccc2q3NSEFChLSR0F340NCnXCwptSMIh8Fevqkw0pdWKjPMCHrzQYZdZYBl7k= =N3QR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
