I don't know about John, but this is a topic of great interest to my
development team. I would like more detail, please.
Many thanks,
Frances
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Collins-Sussman [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:56 AM
To: John Rousseau
Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Checkouts of subsets of the tree
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 09:03, John Rousseau wrote:
> We're moving from CVS and ClearCase to subversion for our fairly large
> Java development project. One of the things that we did with ClearCase
> was check in our customized JDK so that everyone had a consistent
> environment to build against. Since we had people developing on two
> platforms (win32 and linux), we needed to check in JDKs for both
> platforms. ClearCase allows us to load (checkout) just the JDK the
> developer needed saving both update time and client space.
>
> I want to do this with svn. I've looked at both externals and vendor
> branches in the book, but I don't see the way to do this. Any
> pointers?
This sounds exactly like something you'd do with CVS Modules, or SVN
'externals'. Would you like it described in more detail?
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