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Re: .svn directories

From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <raphel.garcia-suarez_at_hexaflux.com>
Date: 2003-08-25 09:49:17 CEST

Jesper Bork wrote:
>
> In a company with many customer-projects, our developers
> often copy-paste something from one project into another. A common happening
> is therefore that one or more cvs directories has been copy-pasted also, and
> that subsequent cvs commands leads to misunderstandings and sometimes even
> percieved loss of data. It was therefore with great sadness that I
> discovered that you much like CVS have a .svn directory in the source
> directories. You could say that this reflects a lack of self-dicipline, but
> I believe that unless an even easier way of doing stuff like that exists,
> this is what people do.

Copy and paste is evil, as the old saying goes. However Subversion
provides a facility to construct a working copy made out of checkouts
from different repositories : lookup 'svn:external' in the book.
Combined with branching/tagging, this proves to be powerful. That might
be a solution to your problem.

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