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Re: Svn and module support

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2002-05-01 22:21:09 CEST

William Uther <will+@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
> svn already support "poor man's modules"? It has `svn switch` :)

Today is my day to respond to module stuff :-). See the recent
changes to

   http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=517

for module plan.

> Obviously you'd want something better for full support, but what it has is
> usable. You do have to set up the links to the module manually for each
> working copy.

The problem with using switch and svn cp for module support is that
each copy becomes a branch -- the changes on the branch are no longer
happening on the original line. Badness :-). I don't think useful
module support can be had this way.

-K

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