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Re: Checking out to a SVN directory

From: Chris Little <clittle_at_sbs.com>
Date: 2004-09-08 16:25:44 CEST

Edward Diener wrote:

>"Lee Merrill" <LeeMerrill@bustech.com> wrote in message
>news:413E2A42.6050804@bustech.com...
>
>
>>Hi Edward,
>> I expect you probably would want to use the "svn:externals" property
>>for that, and this doesn't remove files:
>>
>>http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/ch07s03.html
>>
>>
>
>I am sorry but I have no idea what svn::externals has to do with my
>questions ? Thanks for answering anyway.
>
>
>
>>Lee
>>
>>
>>
>>>Can I check out files from a repository path which already contain files
>>>checked out from a different repository path ?
>>>
>>>Does my .svn then point to the new repostory ?
>>>
>>>Are the files from the first repository path deleted locally before the
>>>
>>>
>new
>
>
>>>checkout is done ?
>>>
>>>
Hi Edward,

Most likely you will get the following, depending on the structure of
your repository(trunk is the name of my test case):

svn: 'trunk' is already a working copy for a different URL

So to answer your questions, -No- to all.

Note that I can put a WC off of another WC, ie I can checkout to a WC if
the checkout is done such that the checkout goes to a child directory of
the existing WC. This is what Kevin just posted, but I am not sure what
use that is unless you are doing something interesting(and you would
want to script it to avoid errors, just like Kevin proposed with the
update issue) - so you may want to use externals at that point.
Externals will allow you to have a checkout then grab other repository
files/directories during the checkout and have them in your WC as well.
This is a bad explanation of the capabilities, but the svnbook explains
it much better.

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