On 11/04/2011 09:13 AM, Mark Phippard wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:09 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net > <mailto:cmpil...@collab.net>> wrote: > > On 11/04/2011 08:36 AM, Mark Phippard wrote: > > I can comment from a GUI tool perspective. In Subclipse, we have > always had > > this feature. > > [...] > > > FWIW, I think that the command line client should have always included > > externals by default. I guess we cannot do that now, so having an > option is > > good. I kind of agree with Bert that I do not like the idea of making > it > > configurable. > > I'm confused, because my understanding was that the underlying commit APIs > were not able to handle multi-working-copy commits (which would include > externals) simultaneously until 1.7 because of code's inability to manage > the ADM locks properly. > > > I think we had this conversation before and you mentioned having put most of > the code in place prior to 1.0 and it just was not finished. The way SVN > worked prior to 1.7 was that it was very easy to trick it. As long as the > common parent of a commit operation looked like a WC, then commit worked. > So in the case, of externals, it simply just worked. But in Subclipse we > were also to trick SVN into doing a single commit across multiple working > copies by dynamically creating a fake .svn folder in the parent of the > working copies.
Right right right. I do recall this now. Thanks for the mental nudge. -- C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
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