Hello everyone,
I wanted to toss this idea out to the group to see if it has merit. The
use of file externals are becoming more and more the norm for handling
product line configuration management. In our corporation, where SVN is
one of our few enterprise support configuration management tools, numerous
disparate groups have come to similar solutions using file externals as a
basis for reuse. Our business model lends itself to making many many
variations of a single product. File externals give us a great way to
give finer grained control of our shared files.
I haven't had a ton of luck with the SVN group convincing them of the
usefulness to organizations that employ file externals. I'm guessing that
since file externals seem to have been bolted on that its a bit messy, and
without a clear line of sight to how file externals are useful, who in
their right mind would want to dive in?
One of the major drawbacks we've stumbled on is that of how svn show log
performs on directories with file externals. Show log on directories will
show that the svn:externals property changed, but will not recurse on the
file external itself to show the change in the file.
This is important as when we evaluate a change that may span many files,
our normal work flow is to do a show log on the WC and search for the
change request number that defined the change (e.g. CR-12345). TSVN
without externals does an awesome job of quickly seeing the complete
change set. When this change would include file externals, we instantly
lose visibility into what really changed.
Do any other users or developers in the TSVN group share interest in a
feature such as this?
If not, is there any good way to implement a solution to this outside of
TSVN proper to use tortoiseproc to simulate this behavior?
Thanks!
Dan
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Received on 2013-09-10 17:00:09 CEST