Advice/Examples for dealing with existing SVN with externals

[Augie Fackler]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Steve Barnes <gadgetsteve at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
> I am trying to put together a plan for dealing with the following
> situation:
> 1/ Set of existing projects currently managed under SVN,
> 2/ At least one of them uses several of the others as svn:externals,
> 3/ There is a considerable history that we would need/like to retain,
> 4/ There are numerous branches which will need to be developed/maintained.
> 5/ Remote repository server currently does not support hg, (but does
> support svn and git).
>
> The sort of structure that I am envisaging at the moment is:
> [image: Envisioned Structure]
> The bit I am struggling with is the mechanism for connecting the
> sub-repositories in to the required developer structure, where the svn
> externals were.  If all the developers were running linux then I could use
> a script to put soft links in place as a possible solution but they/we are
> all running Microsoft Windows, (a mix of XP and 7).
>
> Does anybody have any advice/examples - searching the web is resulting in
> contradictory results including it can/can't be done,  it does/doesn't need
> forest, some other extension, etc.
>

svn subrepos have been available for quite some time (since 1.5, which is
very old by this point). Have you looked at those?


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