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subversion.rst: mention externals support limitations.
author Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr@gmail.com>
date Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:33:56 +0200
parents ccac5ac68e71
children 385213d2e2da
files hgsubversion/help/subversion.rst
diffstat 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/hgsubversion/help/subversion.rst
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@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ Please note that this only works for sin
 Support for externals
 -----------------------------
 
-All ``svn:externals`` properties are serialized into a single
-``.hgsvnexternals`` file having the following syntax::
+When using a standard layout, ``svn:externals`` properties are serialized into
+a single ``.hgsvnexternals`` file having the following syntax::
 
   [.]
    common1 http://path/to/external/svn/repo1
@@ -123,6 +123,10 @@ a repository.
 Mercurial does not track directories, and as a result, any empty directories
 in Subversion cannot be represented in the resulting Mercurial repository.
 
+Externals support requires that the ``svn`` command line utility is available.
+In addition, externals support has been disabled for single directory clones,
+due to known bugs.
+
 Advanced Configuration
 ----------------------