Re: Help with svn:externals

In a message dated: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:25:40 CDT
Nicholas Riley said:

>On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:57:03PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
>> 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?
>
>Yes. But instead of creating a module, you'd just create (svn mkdir)
>another location in the repository with the appropriate svn:externals
>set. This is a common theme of Subversion: lots of separate concepts
>in CVS - tags, branches, modules - are supported in a more free-form
>fashion in Subversion according to the layout of your repository.

Okay, I sorta get it. But am I setting the svn:externals property on
the new directory I just made, or on the parent repository itself?

IOW, I start out by:

        svn mkdir foo
        svn commit -m"made new dir foo"

then, do I:

        svn propset svn:externals --file list_of_aliases.txt foo

or:
        svn propset svn:externals --file list_of_aliases.txt /path/to/repo/

or:
        svn propset svn:externals --file list_of_aliases.txt /path/to/repo/foo

Next, how exactly do I use this? Let's say that
'list_of_aliases.txt' contains:

        foo /path/to/repo/foo
        bar /path/to/repo/bar
        ff /path/to/repo/foo/ff

Can I then just say:

        svn co ff
?

Thanks,
        

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Paul
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