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Re: Checkouts of subsets of the tree

From: Mark Bohlman <mbohlman_at_tcicredit.com>
Date: 2004-06-25 18:32:57 CEST

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 11:05, Butler, Frances H (FHB) wrote:
>
>>I don't know about John, but this is a topic of great interest to my
>>development team. I would like more detail, please.
>
>
> I guess the real question is: is the 'svn:externals' explanation in
> chapter 7 unclear? Can you guys tell us how it's unclear? Ask specific
> questions?

Ben,

    First congrats to you and all on the book, Subversion and your
musical - great work and thanks for all the efforts.

    I don't think the svn:externals is as clear as it could be, although
I've only played with it a bit. I ended up stumbling around trying to
get it set correctly (and I wish I had recorded it - but didn't - will
do so when I can get back to working on it in the next week or so...).

    What would be nice would be something like a concrete example of
being able to get from two repositories a working set of code. Say I'm
using Java, and want to get the source we develop out of
http://repos/trunk/src and the needed vendor jars out of
http://vendor/jars. In my working copy I'd want to be able to do a
"svn co http://repos/trunk/src" and then run ant or make to do a full
build, picking up the needed jars/libraries into the proper location.
Or a similar such scenario, for C/C++ or whatever.

    Having a concrete example to follow on doing something like this
would really help make it clear what was needed by the user, and I think
a lot of us using Subversion would benefit.

Thanks!
-- Mark

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