How to have TortoiseSVN always freeze svn:externals for tags

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dnndeveloper picture dnndeveloper · Dec 30, 2009 · Viewed 8.5k times · Source

Is this possible with tortoiseSVN?:

Always freeze svn:externals for tags

the scenario is our trunk will always use the 'HEAD' revision for externals, however when we create 'tags' we would like for them to have a revision set for externals to properly 'freeze' them at a specific point in time.

Update

Thanks to everyone for your feedback/info.

Since I could not find anything that would completely meet our needs (tried smartsvn and svncopy.pl) I made a console app that so far has passed all our test cases.

A high level overview: The app takes a repository URL then looks for all externals and adds the last commit revision for them - I do a svn info and get the "commit revision".

The app works with both folder and single file externals.

Here is the source code and complete setup files: http://svnxf.codeplex.com/

Answer

Steven Hansen picture Steven Hansen · Oct 9, 2013

I found this post today as I looked for a solution to the exact same problem. Eventually I found that TortoiseSVN in their latest version DOES support this desired functionality: TortoiseSVN 1.7 Release Notes.

Hopefully this will help others who find this post when researching the same issue.

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