Re: Help with svn:externals

Paul Lussier <pll@lanminds.com> writes:
> then, do I:
>
> svn propset svn:externals --file list_of_aliases.txt foo

It's just like any other property. You set it in the working copy,
then commit.

> 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

(Is it intentional that you have an external named foo inside a parent
directory named foo? You'll end up with foo/foo, and if they're the
same directory, you might get an infinite recursion of checkouts...)

If you set the externals property on `foo', then you should check out
a tree containing that directory `foo'. When you check it out (and
when you update) it will grab the externals and include them as
subdirs under `foo'.

Paul, have you done any experimenting yet? I think that would
help.

-K

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Received on Thu Oct 24 18:01:21 2002