Re:Any plans to support subversion externals?

[Vasily Galkin <galkin-vv yandex ru>]

meld is querying subversion status by running "svn status -v --xml" and parsing it's output.
So, behavior of externals may be dependent on svn executable version. Which version do you have?

Do you see modified externals in the output of "svn status"?

With Debian's svn 1.9.3 and meld 3.14.2 I can see modified externals in *both* meld and "svn status", like 
this:

galkin host:/media/my_project/trunk/externals/other_project/branch$ svn status .
M       All.txt
galkin host:/media/my_project/trunk/externals/other_project/branch$ cd ../../..
galkin host:/media/my_project/trunk$ svn status externals/
X       externals/aa_other_project2
X       externals/other_project

Performing status on external item at 'externals/aa_other_project2/Interfaces':

Performing status on external item at 'externals/other_project/branch':
M       externals/other_project/branch/All.txt


--
Best regards, Vasily

> Are there any plans to support subversion working copies that contain
> externals?
>
> Subversion externals are sort of the same as having nested working
> copies where you check out a copy of projectA, and then in the
> projectA working directory you check out projectB (except you can also
> do it with a single file). It's a mechanism to allow sharing source
> code between projects (admittedly it's not a very good mechanism for
> various reasons, but it's what subversion provides for that).
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html
>
> Right now, it appears that Meld just ignores the external files and
> directories.
>
> It would be ideal (IMO) if Meld would show status of external files
> and recurse into external directories the same as it does for 'normal'
> files and directories. NB: 'external' files and directories are
> physically present in the working copy, but they live in a different
> place in the repository that do the rest of the files in the working
> copy.
>
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