On 04/20/2011 01:32 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > For the record, Bert and I discussed this on IRC today. > > The conclusion is that this feature will be revived as it was implemented, > with the addition of a new flag to svn update that allows users to enable > external definitions on locally added directories. Without this flag, > external definitions on locally added directories will be ignored. > > There is a performance overhead involved in crawling the DB for external > definitions. Bert's opinion is that adding this overhead to every update > operation is not acceptable. I don't think that is a big problem. > But the command line switch will make both of us happy. > > This way, users can test their externals definitions locally before > committing them, which is the goal of issue #2267. But normal updates > will not have to endure additional overhead.
This just sounds like a truly odd thing to hook to a command-line option. That said, I confess my ignorance of the details of the issue. We already have to crawl for external definitions as part of 'svn update', don't we? Isn't that what the external_func/external_baton pair passed to svn_wc_crawl_revisions5() is for? -- C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
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