Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Godefroid Chapelle wrote: >> Tres Seaver wrote: >> >>> As an aside / vent: the reason for the now-removed EXTERNALS.txt files >>> was to keep the canonical information about the externals in a diffable >>> file: why subversion can't do a proper diff on its own line-oriented >>> property is beyond me. Another benefit of an EXTERNALS.txt file was >>> that it could be inspected in the web view of a directory, which isn't >>> true for the svn:externals property itself. >>> >>> >>> Tres. >> I want to support this. The noise made by keeping EXTERNALS.txt in svn >> is very low compared to the signal it provides. > > I don't. EXTERNALS.txt is only useful if your tools suck. There are > perfectly capable svn commit mailers and web browsers that show > property changes correctly.
I'm normally not one to play the "get better tools" argument, but EXTERNALS.txt have a tendency to drift out of sync with reality when people get used to "svn pe .", and confuse people who (not unreasonably) think that this is a "magic" file and so edit it and forget to do "svn ps svn:externals -F EXTERNALS .". Martin -- Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
