svn export, checkout, --force and svn:externals

If have a couple of projects, all having some "export" subdirectory
(in all branches & tags) and "import/project1" ... "import/projectn"
subdirectories connected to the "export" directories of other
projects by "svn:externals"

This works as expected, however I am not completely satisfied with
this setup.

First of all, the "import" tree is always read-only and never
should get fed back to the repository, so "svn export" instead
of "svn checkout" would be completely sufficient (and save
considerable disk space...). However, I don't see a way to get
that "export" "connected" the same way as "checkout".

A work around would be to use the setup I have right now +
manually remove the .svn directories in the "import/" tree.
Not nice.

Secondly, ideally I'd like to have all the "import/projectk"
combined in a single "import" directory (regardless of possible
conflicts). For "export" this works by giving the "--force"
option. There seems to be no such thing for "checkout" (and
would be senseless anyway), so the workaround for the first
problem can't even be used with the second.

Any ideas?

Andre'

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Received on Fri Mar 18 08:31:52 2005