[oe] SVN fetcher fix for SRCREV=AUTOREV situations

Richard Purdie rpurdie at rpsys.net
Thu Dec 3 12:26:23 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 08:01 +0100, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> On Thursday 03 December 2009 06:31:57 Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> 
> > that sucks... we are doomed now. If the above directory is deleted in trunk
> > the -r option will not work to download a old rev...
> 
> 
> Stefan just highlighted the above might sound rude. What I tried to say is 
> that IIRC I changed the code to use @rev for the case of downloading a 
> revision where the directory is not in trunk with the current HEAD...
> 
> I don't think we can decide when to use -r and when to use @.. this is why I 
> say we are doomed. The best thing I can think of right now is to try @ and 
> then to go with -r... :(

I've heard reports of the same problem Marcin has from another user too.
I looked into it and I really don't know what the solution is. I think
you could find cases where either didn't work :(.

Cheers,

Richard






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