Suggestion: mention up front that external URLs must name directories
Eric Hanchrow
offby1 at blarg.net
Thu Jan 11 14:22:47 CST 2007
I often see people on #svn who are surprised that they cannot create
a svn:externals property whose value is a file. I think this change
would alleviate that confusion:
Index: ch-advanced-topics.xml
===================================================================
--- ch-advanced-topics.xml (revision 2624)
+++ ch-advanced-topics.xml (working copy)
@@ -2321,7 +2321,7 @@
<firstterm>externals definitions</firstterm>. An externals
definition is a mapping of a local directory to the
URL—and possibly a particular revision—of a
- versioned object. In Subversion, you declare externals
+ versioned directory. In Subversion, you declare externals
definitions in groups using the <literal>svn:externals</literal>
property. You can create or modify this property using
<command>svn propset</command> or <command>svn
--
Keaton, Chaplin, Garbo - let them now make room for Gromit.
A. O. Scott, in The New York Times
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