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Re: File externals & feature requests

From: Bob Fletcher <robert.h.fletcher_at_ieee.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:33:35 -0700 (PDT)

> three pages of externals?
> I think here's your problem: you should seriously consider changing your
> layout and think of a better solution. Subversion is not VSS where you
> could do such dangerous things.
> Really, externals should be *really* external. If you have that many
> file externals, then you have not done a good job with capsuling your
> objects.

Perhaps you are right here Stefan, but that means that I have wasted a
lot of time over the past couple of months. When I first learned of
the availability of file externals, I decided to completely re-
structure my repositories, combining several repos into a single repo.
(My administrator was not particularly happy about this.) In my case
I have a large number (~100) number crunching library routines. For a
typical project, I would bring in a dozen or more of these routines.
Previously, I would just make copies and hope that I could keep things
synchronized (occasionally I have to modify one of the library
routines). It seemed that the file externals feature was what I
needed. However, for all of the reasons discussed in this thread, I am
beginning to regret this move. I realize that mostly these are
Subversion and not TSVN issues, but I sure hoped that TSVN could help
out.

By the way, I don't mean to sound critical of you guys. I really
appreciate your hard work and I could not get along without TSVN.

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