On Thu, 29 May 2003, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Bill Comisky <bcomisky@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > option 2
> > --------
> > Use the svn:externals property to handle the multiple checkouts of project
> > specific and common code. This has the advantage of everyone being able
> > to checkout the entire project structure without having to manually build
> > the working copy.
>
> This is the best option, it should work fine for you.
>
>
> > However, from what I've read, the svn:externals code isn't quite ready.
> > Do 'commit'/'status' functions work?
>
> No, but it's not a huge deal either. All this means is that you can't
> run 'svn commit' from the very top of your working copy and have the
> commit crawl into your 'external' subdirectory. You'll have to go
> into the 'external' subdir and commit from there.
>
> But then again, if two projects are sharing a common external module,
> the module is a bit like a project in its own right. Most of the time
> you'll *want* to make commits to the module independently of the
> larger projects, right?
good point.
> > Another killer is that the revision number of the external is fixed
> > to some tag or revision number (using -r), or to HEAD by default.
> > Since my common code will frequently be updated from the working
> > directory of either project, I'd have to constantly modify the
> > svn:external revision number manually (I think).
>
> Huh? I think you're misunderstanding something here.
>
> 'svn update' *does* crawl into external subdirs. That means if you
> commit a change to the shared module from projectA, you can run 'svn
> up' at the top of projectB, and it's copy of the shared module will
> still be updated.
>
> There's no need to modify the svn:external value at all. Most of the
> time you want to track HEAD, right? I'm not understanding why you
> think it needs to change.
What if I need to time travel back to an earlier revision? My impression
(maybe from something I read on the mailing list) was that if I didn't
update the svn:external property, that my checkout of an earlier revision
would still check out the HEAD of the external.. Is this not true?
bill
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Received on Thu May 29 23:50:27 2003