Robert Osfield wrote: >Hi Renit, > >On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Reint Boer Iwema ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> The change of svn:externals seems to have broken the 2.3.6 (tag) >> version. On check-out I get the following error: >> >> External: D:\OpenSceneGraph\2.3.6\include\OpenThreads >> Error: URL >> 'http://www.openscenegraph.org/svn/osg/OpenThreads/trunk/include/OpenThreads' >> doesn't exist >> >> Can you change the external URL in version 2.3.6? >> >> > >Argghg.... I made a change to the externals on svn head of both >OpenThreads & OpenSceneGraph, and I'm afraid the external properties >in the tags of OpenSceneGraph still refer to OpenThreads/trunk which >is why suddenly you have problems. > >Using SVN to access any of the 1.9.x onward tags will exhibit this >problem too so we'll need to have a think about how best to update the >tags so the svn:externals property is updated to a specific >OpenThreads tag. > > Not sure if you mean tag or revision here, but in any case, the chapter on svn:externals in the Subversion book (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.externals.html) mentions
"You should seriously consider using explicit revision numbers in all of your externals definitions. Doing so means that you get to decide when to pull down a different snapshot of external information, and exactly which snapshot to pull. Besides avoiding the surprise of getting changes to third-party repositories that you might not have any control over, using explicit revision numbers also means that as you backdate your working copy to a previous revision, your externals definitions will also revert to the way they looked in that previous revision, which in turn means that the external working copies will be updated to match they way /they/ looked back when your repository was at that previous revision. For software projects, this could be the difference between a successful and a failed build of an older snapshot of your complex codebase." Paul _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
