[Zope-dev] Subversion externals versus mirroring

[Martijn Faassen]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
> On Sep 9, 2009, at 15:30 , Martijn Faassen wrote:
> 
>> Ah, I perhaps misunderstood. I figured the resolving of relative
>> externals would be a problem with a Subversion 1.4.x client.
> 
> There's two different issues being confused here.
> 
> SVN 1.4 clients will work with SVN 1.5 repositories in general. However, 
> that's not the real issue here. The issue is the new-style externals 
> definitions that allow you to use "relative" paths. Those relative paths 
> will not work for SVN 1.4 clients.

Okay, no objection to upgrading the server to 1.5 now.

But requiring 1.5 as clients will need some more discussion. I take it 
there are two main reasons to do so:

* relative URLs in externals

* better merge tracking

Regards,

Martijn