[Zope-dev] Subversion externals versus mirroring

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 2009-9-9 14:54, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Martijn Faassen<faassen at startifact.com>  wrote:
>> Christian Theune wrote:
>>> However, this requires Subversion 1.5 which we are using on the server
>>> already, but I don't know whether we assume clients are 1.5 or higher.
>>
>> I certainly still use a SVN 1.4.x client, being on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
>> (released just last year). I don't think SVN 1.5 is common enough yet to
>> make such a move possible.
>
> We moved all the Plone repositories (including the rather massively
> used collective) to Subversion 1.5.6 a while ago. So far there have
> been no complaints by anyone. And as Robert noted you can use a
> Subversion 1.4 client with a 1.5 server just fine.
>
> I think doing the server upgrade very soon (tm) shouldn't be a problem.

Relative externals are handled on the svn client, not the svn server.

Wichert.


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