[SVN-4286] Relative Revision Peg On Relative Path Externals

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: ---
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: unknown
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 02/Jan/13 15:17
• Updated: 03/Feb/15 12:47

Description

The feature is to allow notation like the following external definition

../../common/module1@RELATIVE module1

in order to peg an external to the revision of the folder owning the the 
external property.

Without such a "relative" peg the external revision would need to be manually 
pegged specifically to the revision at each code change or a future retrieval 
of the project at a given revision would export/checkout the externals at the 
head revision.

Without such a feature it is cumbersome and error prone to get the exact code 
state at a required revision, as it either will have required careful manual 
management at commit time, or will require manual intervention at 
export/checkout time to ensure externals are set the correct revision.

For more details see the users mailing list discussion at 
permalink:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-
users/201212.mbox/%3CCAOjnM9fMS-N-
a8j9qVp73WYadmt%2B2bY1U2kPY2Z3Zy63BkVVqA%40mail.gmail.com%3E

Original issue reported by stefanscherer