Bzr externals for bzr and bzr-svn

[Tom Widmer]

Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 13:20 +1200, Patrick van der Velde wrote:
>> I've been experimenting with bzr at work. Creating a bzr 'working
>> directory' from our SVN repository is very simple and super quick!
>> However I haven't been able to make the svn-externals directories show
>> up in the bzr 'working directory'.
>>
>> I've installed bzr-externals (v1.3) but for some reason bzr-svn
>> doesn't import the externals directories from the svn repository. Is
>> there a way to make bzr-svn get the externals?
> There is nothing in Bazaar that bzr-svn could map externals to. Nested
> trees have been discussed, but it doesn't look like they will land any
> time soon and unfortunately this also means that svn externals won't be
> supported in bzr-svn any time soon.

As a short-medium term solution, would it be possible to use the 
bzr-externals plugin? Presumably you'd just have to populate the 
relevant .bzrmeta/ files during import, but perhaps this would cause 
backwards and forwards compatibility issues (and obviously you could 
only round-trip bzr externals that reference svn branches).

Tom