On 2006-01-31 10:02:00 -0800, Duke Tantiprasut wrote:
> I think it would be good if SVN can natively support symlinks within its
> internal repository tree and manage it itelf rather than relying on the file
> system that is checked out on.
>
> Perhaps something along the lines of:
>
> svn link svn://source svn://dest
>
> The idea is rather than creating a copy (i.e. branch), it would allow
> changes to files in that directory to flow through and not branch.
> Bidirectional would be good, but even just unidirectional link svn:externals
> would be a good start. Editing svn:externals is troublesome, it's not easy
> to just add and remove directory members, especially when you need to
> automate.
[[[
$ cat addexternal
#!/bin/sh
T="$(mktemp)"
svn pg svn:externals $1 > $T
echo "$2" >> $T
svn ps svn:externals -F $T $1
rm $T
]]]
doesnt sounds complicated to me. removing is as simple as adding.
just my 2 cents.
darix
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Received on Thu Feb 2 02:22:26 2006