On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 06:42:08PM +0100, Stefan Kueng wrote: > Maybe one more improvement: > Add a new API to fetch the list of externals which would be pegged if NULL > is passed to the svn_client_copy7 API. > > Suggested name: svn_client_get_externals_for_copy() > which returns the hash of all externals. > I figure the code to do that is already in place (you have to do that if > NULL is passed). And it would make it easier for clients. > > I can easily do this myself on a working copy, but I'm guessing I can't do > it using the client API's as efficiently as a new API could for urls.
A recursive propget on the copy source gives you that list. Plus you'd have to pass the externals you get through svn_wc_parse_externals_description3() to get them represented as an array of svn_wc_external_item2_t.
