Re: svn commit: r11407

> Log:
> Replaced use of externals with duplicate copy.

Uh, no :-).

The answer to "Don't use svn:externals" is not "Okay, let's duplicate
24 megs of data into the Subversion tree".

Brian Fitzpatrick is reverting this change right now, so you don't
need to do anything. But in the future, please think carefully about
the effects of a commit. Adding 1500 files / 24 megabytes?? There's
got to be a better way. (In addition, some of the data added
duplicated data elsewhere in our tree, I believe, causing a typical
"two master copies" problem.)

Here is the solution we should have used from the beginning:

You need a repository of your own, which pulls in the relevant subdirs
of the Subversion repository using svn:externals, and pulls in
anything else you need via svn:externals as well. So your repository
would hold very little data of its own, but would use svn:externals to
marshal data from elsewhere. Does that make sense?

Another proposal, which could be used in tandem with the above, is to
use Subversion's new symlink versioning to help you (thanks to Mike
Pilato for this suggestion).

I think these would be better ways. Please let us know what you
think.

-Karl

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Received on Thu Oct 14 23:12:38 2004