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

Does anyone have any feedback for my question?

I suppose I can try an experiment but I'd rather just get some expert
advice and reorganize our actual project.

Thanks,
Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles E. Doucette [mailto:cdoucette@med-learn.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 7:37 PM
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Cc: 'Stas Taraschansky'
Subject: 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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