Some Subversion operations will traverse into externals -- I think all
the "important" ones will, but I can't swear to it, because it's been
a while since I tried it.
If you wanted to conduct some experiments and post the results, that
would be a huge service, and your post would be much referred to from
future threads :-). It's understandable that you'd prefer someone to
just give you a detailed answer, of course, and I wish I
could... Sorry.
-Karl
"Charles E. Doucette" <cdoucette@med-learn.com> writes:
> 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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