use of svn:externals (does Subversion recurse into external directories?)

We are developing a few (ASP.NET) website projects using Subversion.

One of the websites has subdirectories with thousands of loosely-coupled multi-media files
(which takes hundreds of megabytes).

This files do change occasionally, and they should be in synch. with the code,
so, we'd like to track them with version control; however, it is quite rare.

I thought perhaps all of the subdirectories with multi-media files
could be constructed via svn:externals (a property I would have to set on
the top-level directory).

My question is would Subversion automatically traverse into the subdirectories
with the multimedia files, or would it only apply to the files and subdirectories
which were part of the original tree in the repository (without the externals)?

If so, perhaps we can reorganize things with externals so that normal commands (status, update, commit etc.) would work *much*
faster? Then, if/when we needed to perform
operations on the directories with multimedia files we could cd to those directories
and perform those operations explicitly?

Thanks,
Chuck

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Received on Wed Dec 10 01:37:58 2003