Isn't a worse issue that it breaks addons and addons_contrib?

Martin


>________________________________
> From: Campbell Barton <[email protected]>
>To: bf-blender developers <[email protected]> 
>Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:29:49 PM
>Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Directory visibility on web and git access
> 
>Hi Jonathan,
>Since we had this issue reported a few times, CMake now checks for
>this and warns (but continues building).
>
>CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:357 (message):
>  Translation path '/dsk/data/src/blender/blender/release/datafiles/locale'
>  is missing, This is an 'svn external', which are known not to work with
>  bridges to other version control systems, disabling 'WITH_INTERNATIONAL'.
>
>On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:14 AM, jonathan d p ferguson
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> hi.
>>
>> Yep. Based on my reading, "git svn" does not yet support svn:externals at 
>> all. One may use a number of different helper scripts to get around this 
>> difficulty. There are also many strategies to solving this problem. One that 
>> might be useful is: https://github.com/andrep/git-svn-clone-externals
>>
>> It is worth noting that simply creating a symlink in the right place may not 
>> create builds that are portable from that development system (this was my 
>> experience on Linux anyway using cmake and Makefiles)--- "make install" will 
>> merely copy the symlink--- not follow it. Symlinks, while supported on 
>> NTFS/Windows are less common than in Unix-like operating systems, so one 
>> might not see this issue on that platform.
>>
>> Finally, I wanted to thank the Blender development community for making such 
>> an awesome work of art.
>>
>> Moreover, I commend the maintainers of the Blender build systems, it is now 
>> trivial to get blender built on GNU/Linux using cmake.
>>
>> So a big Thank You to everyone who has added to the amazing thing that is 
>> Blender!
>>
>> have a day.yad
>> jdpf
>>
>>
>> On Mar 13, 2012, at 7:53 AM, Martin Poirier wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The datafiles directory has the following svn property:
>>>
>>> svn:externals = locale 
>>> https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-translations/trunk/locale
>>>
>>> Which links the locale subdirectory to another repository.
>>>
>>> This is also the case for release/scripts for the addons and addons_contrib 
>>> folders:
>>>
>>>
>>> addons https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-extensions/trunk/py/scripts/addons
>>> addons_contrib 
>>> https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-extensions/contrib/py/scripts/addons
>>>
>>>
>>> Looks like git's svn support doesn't allow externals out of the box.
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>>
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: Wander Lairson Costa <[email protected]>
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 7:44:16 AM
>>>> Subject: [Bf-committers] Directory visibility on web and git access
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I am new to blender and this is my first post in this mailing list.
>>>>
>>>> Recently I tried to download blender source code from official svn
>>>> repository through "git svn":
>>>>
>>>> $ mkdir blender-svn
>>>> $ cd blender-svn
>>>> $ git svn clone https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender 
>>>> blender
>>>>
>>>> Code compile successfully but I got an error during "make install",
>>>> saying "locale" file was not found. And indeed the directory
>>>> "release/datafiles/locale" was not there. Then I tried to download it
>>>> through normal svn client and everything worked fine.
>>>>
>>>> Going deeper into this problem I noticed when trying to see the
>>>> repository through web I cannot see the locale directory [1]. The
>>>> directory is not there also for the official git mirror [2]. Trying to
>>>> download the master branch as a .tar.gz doesn't work either.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have an idea of what's going on?
>>>>
>>>> [1] 
>>>> https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender/release/datafiles/
>>>>
>>>> [2] 
>>>> https://gitorious.org/blenderprojects/blender/trees/master/blender/release/datafiles
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Wander Lairson Costa
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