Re: Help with svn:externals

In a message dated: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:45:40 PDT
Julian Fitzell said:

>> Is there some way to do that with svn? Check out only portions or
>> certain subdirs of a repository ?
>
>Sure:
>
>svn co /path/to/repos/pll/bin

Oh, so I didn't realize it was that easy. I wonder if I'm not asking
the right questions then. In the article I read, the author
mentioned using CVS modules and aliases. I'm wondering now, if
aliases aren't what I'm after. He mentioned that he could
checkout his home directory but various portions of it by requesting
to checkout an alias (at least that's what I understood.

So, he would do something like 'cvs co home-nomail', and that would
checkout everything but his mail dir; or he could do 'cvs co home-dev'
and that would only check out whatever he needed for sw development
(bin/ etc/ .xemacs/ lib/, etc.)

So, if I can simply 'svn co /path/to/repos/pll/bin', is there a way
to checkout a portion of all subdirs? If I have say:

        bin/
        etc/
        lib/
        mail/
        .netscape/

Can I some how specify I only want to check out bin/, etc/, and lib/
but not mail/ and .netscape/. Is there a way to create an alias for
certain combinations of sub-dirs you want grouped together? Would
that be handled by the 'svn:externals' thing?

Thanks,

-- 
Seeya,
Paul
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