Re: Best Practices question

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On Wednesday 09 October 2002 08:20, Wolf Josef wrote:
> Sometimes unrelated projects grow together. Is there any way
> to merge them afterwards?

As long as the merging takes place in separate directory trees, you can use
svn's version of CVS modules.

Set the svn:externals property on a directory to checkout directories from
other repositories whenever the original directory is checked out. The
repository remains separate, but in the working copy it appears that they
have been merged. If you commit to the imported directory, it will affect
the external repository.

The merge isn't completely clean: the import only affects working copies, so
you won't be able to use a URL in the first repository to access modules
imported from the second. They remain separate URLs.

Or, you can do the svnadmin dump trick, which will completely merge the repos,
but is a little more difficult.

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Peter Davis
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Received on Wed Oct 9 23:18:49 2002