SVN externals allow you to make an SVN folder appear as if it’s at another location. A good use for this is having a common folder shared across all of your projects in SVN.
I have a /trunk/common folder in SVN that I share via several different project.
Example:
- Project1 : /trunk/project1/depends
- Project2 : /trunk/project2/depends
- Project3 : /trunk/project3/depends
- Project4 : /trunk/project4/depends
Each of these depends folders are empty, but have an svn:external defined to point to my /trunk/common folder.
The problem is when I view log within any of the projects: /trunk/projectX/ it does not show changes from the svn:externals. I am using tortoise SVN as my SVN client.
Does anyone know how to change this behavior? I would like for the show log of /trunk/projectX to include any changes to any defined svn:externals as well.
This is not possible with the current release of Subversion, other than explicitly calling svn log on the target of the externals directory
You can try issueing a feature request at the Apache Subversion website