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Re: module support

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_lyra.org>
Date: 2002-01-22 00:11:05 CET

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:17:48PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> "Lance Larsen" <llarsen@netopia.com> writes:
> > I have been looking through the design docs and other info I could
> > find about subversion. I am curious if there has been any talk about
> > module support for subversion. I have run into the need to share
> > code between multiple projects in a repository several times, and
> > the CVS support for this is rather limited and awkward. Sourcesafe
> > seemed to allow a little more flexibility in sharing files within a
> > directory structure, but I prefer CVS for other reasons. I like the
> > sound of the design changes with svn. Is module support included, or
> > planned, or not yet addressed?
>
> There's been some talk, but it is not designed yet. Module support
> will be post 1.0.
>
> Search back in the dev list archives for the old discussions;
> searching for "module" in the Subject line should be enough.

A similar, related issue is mixed-repository working copies. We haven't
brought that one up in a while...

Right now, we don't have a mechanism to say "this directory is from a
different repository than <that> directory." Let alone start up multiple RA
sessions and separate commits.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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