Re: externals stuff (was: [PATCH] Have default log message use relative paths)

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:32:13PM -0800, Greg Stein wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:17:08AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Not necessarily. /home/cjwatson and /home/cjwatson/bin here are two
> > different working copies. (I'd use svn:externals except for the fact
> > that I use that repository from different locations where the hostname
> > of the server is different.)
>
> Actually, you could do something like this:
>
> /trunk
> ... whatever
> /modules
> /from-home
> /from-work

That's a very interesting idea. Thanks, I'll look at it. The only
problem there is likely to be that I kind of need the ability to set
svn:externals on . if I do that ...

  [cjwatson@arborlon ~/modules-wc]$ svn pg svn:externals .
  . http://riva.lab.dotat.at/svn/cjwatson/home
  
  [cjwatson@arborlon ~/modules-wc]$ svn up
   U .
  Updated to revision 0.
  
  Fetching external item into .
  svn: Attempted to lock an already-locked dir
  svn: working copy locked: .
  svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remove locks (type 'svn help cleanup' for details)

I'm guessing it's kind of hard to make that work, but if it were
possible it would be an interesting alternative to a hypothetical 'svn
ln' (with slightly different semantics - ln presumably wouldn't allow
different externals properties like this).

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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