On 9/17/07, Mehdi Rabah <mehdi.rabah@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/12/07, Mark Phippard <markphip@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/12/07, Mehdi Rabah <mehdi.rabah@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks for this software which I can't live without anymore.
> > >
> > > I wanted to ask you if there's a way to checkout a project as a folder
> > > of another project ?
> > >
> > > For now I use the shell, but it's not working really well:
> > >
> > > **checkout project someLib with subclipse**
> > > cd someLib
> > > svn co file:///myCode
> > >
> > > resulting tree:
> > >
> > > someLib
> > > +someLibSrc
> > > +myCode
> > > ++myApps
> > >
> > > when I update this project, the "myCode" project is detected as
> > > unversionned but I can still update the myApps folder (and that's what
> > > I want)
> > >
> > > It is possible to see this "Checkout as Folder" feature in subclipse
> > > in the future ?
> >
> > I do not foresee it happening. The connection with the Eclipse
> > Project and a Team Provider happens at the project level. Our code
> > makes the assumption that the project itself is connected to
> > Subversion. In your case, it sounds like that might be true. If so,
> > then you should look into using the svn:externals feature in this
> > project, which offers you a "native Subversion" way to pull in code
> > from another project.
> >
>
>
> Thanks for your answer, I didn't know about svn:externals, and it
> worked perfectly.
>
> I edited the svn:external property on a folder with subclipse and it
> was detected as an external folder. But when I tried to update it
> didn't retrieve the code from this external repository (update !=
> checkout). I had to make the checkout from the shell and then it
> worked (I could update and commit).
>
> What I mean is that subclipse miss a feature to retrieve data from an
> external project when a folder was detected as external. Or I missed
> something :)
Did you commit the svn:externals property change before doing this?
Subclipse certainly pulls down the externals content automatically.
Well, technically Subversion does it. We just run the svn update API.
I usually just do update on my top-level project folder and it does everything.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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Received on Mon Sep 17 16:28:01 2007