On 28.07.2009 15:33, Bob Fletcher wrote:
>> three pages of externals?
>> I think here's your problem: you should seriously consider changing your
>> layout and think of a better solution. Subversion is not VSS where you
>> could do such dangerous things.
>> Really, externals should be *really* external. If you have that many
>> file externals, then you have not done a good job with capsuling your
>> objects.
>
> Perhaps you are right here Stefan, but that means that I have wasted a
> lot of time over the past couple of months. When I first learned of
> the availability of file externals, I decided to completely re-
> structure my repositories, combining several repos into a single repo.
> (My administrator was not particularly happy about this.) In my case
> I have a large number (~100) number crunching library routines. For a
> typical project, I would bring in a dozen or more of these routines.
> Previously, I would just make copies and hope that I could keep things
> synchronized (occasionally I have to modify one of the library
> routines). It seemed that the file externals feature was what I
> needed. However, for all of the reasons discussed in this thread, I am
> beginning to regret this move. I realize that mostly these are
> Subversion and not TSVN issues, but I sure hoped that TSVN could help
> out.
If you have such a large number of lib routines, you should put them all
into one or a few folders and then include that folder with an external.
There's no law that states that you have to use all files in such an
external folder - so just don't use those you don't need.
That approach also makes it much, much easier to create tags (i.e., add
the '-r XXX' to the external property) or even *notice* in an update
that something in an external has changed - if you have that many file
externals, I'm sure you will miss one day that one of those has changed
during an update and might cause problems.
Stefan
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