[kw-pm] for subversion weenies: tweaking "svncopy.pl"

[Robert P. J. Day]

  a followup to an older email when i asked for help with the perl
script "svncopy.pl" that you can find here:

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/svncopy/svncopy.pl.in

  in a nutshell, the purpose of that script is to do a basic svn copy,
but allow you to *pin* external references to the revision that they
currently point at -- very handy when you want to tag the current
repository and have all the externals "pinned" to their current
revisions.

  however, as i see it (and i'm willing to be convinced otherwise),
that script doesn't handle top-level directories that happen to be
externals.  i see no reason why those should be treated differently
but, AFAICT, they are.

  can anyone verify that that's a limitation of that script?  and,
better yet, how to fix that?  i have a case of beer for whoever makes
that annoyance go away.

rday
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Robert P. J. Day
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