Re: [LinuxBIOS] svn and firewall

[Uwe Hermann]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:55:16PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 02:27:35PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > Removing the svn:externals links is probably not an option, as many
> > people want to have the utilities in the v2 / v3 tree.
>
> Note that obtaining this layout would still be possible anyway, with
> something like:
>
> svn co svn://linuxbios.org/repos/trunk/LinuxBIOSv2
>   cd LinuxBIOSv2
>   svn co svn://linuxbios.org/repos/trunk/util

Yes, of course. The svn:externals is just for convenience.

We could drop it completely and _force_ people to checkout the
utilities manually, but this has been rejected many times, likely
exactly for that reason, because it's convenient to get them
automatically with the v2/v3 code in one go.

Uwe.