On Wednesday 04 August 2004 11:32, Ian Brockbank wrote:
Thanks a lot for this information. In the meantime I figured out how to do it
with an scriptfile which names the svn directory. An update copies the
generic directory into each specific directory, while keeping only one
generic repository directory. I was a little bit confused because cvs works
different for this specific problem.
> Hi Taco,
>
> The format of the command is svn propset svn:externals "value"
> directory. E.g.
>
> svn propset svn:externals "project1
> svn://localhost/svnrepos/projects/generic" .
>
> - remember the externals value has to be enclosed in quotes so that it
> appears to the command line as a single argument. Also the directory on
> the working copy comes before the URL (and until 1.1 comes along you
> can't have relative externals).
>
> I use svn propedit instead of propset - e.g.
>
> svn propedit svn:externals .
>
> That brings up a text editor in which to put the svn:externals.
>
> The svn:externals property is a set of lines of the format
> <dir> <URL>
> - one directory per line. So in this case, you would type
> project1 svn://localhost/svnrepos/projects/generic
> into the text editor.
>
> It is documented on pages 154-156 of the book, online at
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/ch07s03.html
>
> Does this make it clearer?
>
> Ian Brockbank
> Senior Applications Software Engineer
> e: ian.brockbank@wolfsonmicro.com / apps@wolfsonmicro.com
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Taco Walstra [mailto:walstra@science.uva.nl]
> > Sent: 04 August 2004 10:18
> > To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: Re: externals question
> >
> > On Wednesday 04 August 2004 11:06, Jan Evert van Grootheest wrote:
> > > Here's how we do it.
> > > There's a subdirectory in the project that's called
> >
> > components (the generic
> >
> > > code).
> > >
> > > [issysd25@a05008 mal]$ svn pl -v
> > > Properties on '.':
> > > svn:externals : components
> > > http://a05009.aex.nl:65030/svn/MAL2/products/trunk/components
> >
> > sorry, but it's not a real answer. The question was examples
> > of SETTING the
> > externals property and what is wrong with the syntax of
> > svn propset svn:externals ../../generic project1
> > or
> >
> > (from the specific directory)
> > svn propset svn:externals ../generic project1
> >
> > or
> > svn propset svn:externals
> > svn://localhost/svnrepos/projects/generic project1
> > Taco Walstra
> >
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