Hello, we are currently in the process of implementing subversion on our site and I have found out it lacks one feature I'd really love to use: relative local paths for svn:externals.
I already started a discussion about such a feature over in the user@ mailing list, and after a little discussion I got the suggestion to write about my wish here and start a discussion here. I know that there are other possible solutions for my problem, but none of those seems to have the elegancy and simplicity a svn:externals based solution would have! They're either failure prone (user errors) or would require to use OS level commands/techniques which are Unfamiliar/strange to normal users here which wouldn't increase trust in a SCM solution at all! Here's what I'd like to do: Given the following directory structure (on Windows): D:\Source\Project1 D:\Source\Project2 D:\Source\Project3 D:\Source\CommonFiles where each Project directory contains one working copy and relies also on files from CommonFiles and all of those projects and CommonFiles are from the same repository. I'd like to be able to specify on Project1 ../CommonFiles as local path of the svn:externals property. I can understand the security concerns raised over in user@, but for this the feature should either a) have a global switch in the client to disallow usage of ../ completely b) have the possibility to specify a list of "trusted" domains/URL which may contain ../ paths and for all other repositories ../ as local path for svn:externals would be illigal c) A combination of a) and b) so you can switch it off even if a "trusted" list exists I don't mind a) or b) either would be fine with me. Another security meassure could be built in I'd be ok with as well: limit relative local svn:external paths to one single hierarchy level: ../CommonFiles would be allowed but ../../ would be illegal. So for my example nothing could leave d:\Source with that limit. I hope my wish has been well enough written to be understandable. If not feel free to contact me for further clarifications. Best regards Markus Humm EB-EV Entwicklung Elektronik ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG Bachmühle 2 74673 Mulfingen Phone.: +49 (7938) 81 531 Fax: +49 (7938) 81 9531 mailto: markus.h...@de.ebmpapst.com http://www.ebmpapst.com GreenTech - Ein Zeichen, mit dem wir Zeichen setzen. A symbol that defines standards. ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG Sitz der Gesellschaft: Bachmuehle 2, D-74673 Mulfingen Kommanditgesellschaft Sitz Mulfingen: Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRA 590344 Komplementaer: Elektrobau Mulfingen GmbH, Sitz Mulfingen, Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 590142 Geschaeftsfuehrung: Hans-Jochen Beilke (Vorsitzender), Thomas Borst, Hans Peter Fuchs, Dr. Bruno Lindl, Thomas Wagner
