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+1 for implementing this feature.

axaris software & systeme GmbH wrote:

Is this to complicated?

It would be nice to know if it is a difficult task (or requires some other features to be implemented beforehand)? Or is it just lack of time, because of so many other features to implement?

Deniz Bahadir wrote:

It would be nice to know if it is a difficult task (or requires some other features to be implemented beforehand)? Or is it just lack of time, because of so many other features to implement?

#779 has been implemented in 1.4.0 so this issue is kind of obsolete, isn't it?

Etienne Massip wrote:

#779 has been implemented in 1.4.0 so this issue is kind of obsolete, isn't it?

I am sorry, I did not know about #779.
However, that does not (really) solve my concern. Maybe issue #7321 is not the correct place for my concern but it sounded closest to me.

I will try to explain, what my concern is:

SVN-externals are similar to symlinks. They point to another directories (or even files) within the same or another svn-repository.
Assuming I have a repo-structure like this:

root
|-> dir1
|     |-> file1.1
|     \-> file1.2
|-> dir2
|     |-> file2.1
|     \-> file2.2
|-> dir3
|     |-> file3.1
|     \-> file3.2
     |-> svn-external to: root\dir1
     \-> svn-external to: root\dir2\file1.1

 svn checkout svn://root/dir3/ workspace

workspace
|-> file3.1
|-> file3.2
|-> file2.1
\-> dir1
      |-> file1.1
      \-> file1.2

That is why I think it would be a very useful feature for Redmine, to not only show the svn-externals as property values, but also to evaluate them and display the appropriate source together with its log-messages. (Eventually, one could make it an optional behavior that could be switched on or off, for backward-compatibility.)

Of course, with #779 implemented in Redmine 1.4.0 I could just add an extra repository for each svn external by hand, but that can be much work if one uses svn externals a lot. (And still, I would be unable to see all changes at a glance, without clicking through all repositories.)

+1 for implementing this feature, still relevant. It's great that redmine allows adding multiple repositories to the project but it would be much more convenient if it provided better integration for svn externals