Advice/Examples for dealing with existing SVN with externals

Steve Barnes gadgetsteve at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 10 23:35:57 UTC 2013


On 10/01/13 14:38, Augie Fackler wrote:
>
>     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?
>
>     -- 
>     Steve /Gadget/ Barnes
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Thanks for the pointer, I will look deeper into them.

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Steve /Gadget/ Barnes
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