On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 20:01 +0200, Stefan Küng wrote: > On 20.08.2010 19:54, Julian Foad wrote: > > * An 'external' or 'switched' WC node is an immediate child of a > > versioned WC directory. [3] > > Don't forget that an external does not necessarily have a versioned WC > dir as its immediate parent: > svn:externals http://server.com/repo/trunk subdir/extdir > in that case, 'subdir' would be the immediate parent of the external, > but it's not versioned.
Ah yes. r988086. For file externals, a quick test shows that it just throws errors. But it seems to be an intentional and presumably useful part of the (directory externals) design, so I suppose we should aim to make that option available for file externals too. - Julian
