How to have TortoiseSVN always freeze svn:externals for tags

Question

Is this possible with tortoiseSVN?:

Always freeze svn:externals for tags

the scenario is our trunk will always use the \'HEAD\' revision for externa

Answer 1

The recommended best practice is to always use an explicit revision (not HEAD) in externals definitions. From the documentation:

You should seriously consider using explicit revision numbers in all of your externals definitions. Doing so means that you get to decide when to pull down a different snapshot of external information, and exactly which snapshot to pull. … For software projects, this could be the difference between a successful and a failed build of an older snapshot of your complex codebase.

To directly answer your question: no, it’s not possible to automatically change the externals definitions when tagging using TortoiseSVN. It will have to be done manually when creating the tag.