On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:54:00 -0600, Charles Oliver Nutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> The recent hassle with Joni in externals has shown that svn:externals
> are just not going to be usable for us. They break our ability to roll
> back to a previous release, since externals do not by default lock to a
> specific revision. They introduce fragility into the codebase since we
> can't depend on an external resource to not change. And they don't work
> with a number of tools, including some IDEs and CI servers.
Would you be willing to blog this? I've been involved with so many
projects where they had to learn about svn:externals the hard way; part
of the problem is that there haven't been any good articles on the web
that I could point to in order to support my case against them.
-mental
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