Ok that sounds event better, in the sense that with one checkout of some
version/branch I get a working combination of sources and dependencies (libs
and tools) for those sources.
If I understood your message properly.
f(t)
On 10/9/07, Bicking, David (HHoldings, IT) <David.Bicking@thehartford.com>
wrote:
>
> (sorry for top-post - for some reason I cannot do this particular
> message as "plain text")
>
> It sounds like you need to read about Vendor Branches in the Subversion
> book. Also take a look at the property "svn:external". Between these two,
> you should have a useful answer. Essentially, you would maintain a
> branch/project just for these tools and update them as needed. Your "real"
> projects would use an external reference (by version number) to pull those
> binaries into the appropriate place in your local workspace.
>
> --
> David
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail [mailto:
> francisco.diaztrepat@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 09, 2007 1:50 PM
> *To:* subversion
> *Subject:* Large Binary File Repository
>
>
> Hi all, I am new to the list and fairly new to subversion also.
>
> I need to analyse SVN as well as other SCM's. And one important task we
> need is to have a special repository to handle *Libraries & Tools* that we
> use on the current on-going projects. We have a structure in which a Disk
> (S) has two folders \libraries and \tools, inside each of them we end up
> having different versions of the same libraries, libraries we don't use
> anymore, etc.
>
> What we are trying to do is to have the SCM, in this case Subversion,
> manage large these (some times large) binary files, so that we may checkout
> latest versions of libraries automatically instead of having each developer
> copy the libraries that it needs from a central storage server.
>
> I was wondering If some of you could share tips, comments, and
> recommendations to better accomplish this, or comments otherwise.
>
> We are, for now (temporarily, and sadly) installing subversion on a
> Windows XP Professional (Latest patches), just to run test, most likely
> latter to be Kubuntu.
>
> May be there are some configurations like transaction wise or logs that
> speed up the process. Also I think it is better to run it with the *
> SVNSERVE* server, right?
>
> Well, thanks in advance,
>
> f(t)
>
>
>
>
>
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