Thanks for the good pointers, sean and dworley. I'll be checking out svncopy.pl
as soon as I get a free millicycle, probably tonight.
-Jesse
Quoting Dale Worley <dworley@pingtel.com>:
> What you did is correct as far as it goes. The library directory was marked
> '?' since it is not a specified component of its parent directory.
>
> But what you really want to be doing, I think, is to have the project-a
> contain an "external link" to the library directory. That way, when you
> check out project-a, your client also checks out library as the .../library
> subdirectory of your working directory. Your client then conspires to make
> the subdirectory largely act as an integral component of project-a.
>
> However, when you want to make a tag of project-a and simultaneously make a
> tag of library, things are messier, because the "svn copy" operation doesn't
> update external links -- the tagged copy of project-a will still point to
> (implicitly include) the main of library.
>
> The svncopy.pl script takes care of this fairly well, except that the
> current version requires that the tagged copy of project-a and library live
> in sibling directories.
>
> I'm working on revisions to svncopy.pl that allow you to specify
> independently the destinations of the copies of the different components.
>
> In regard to checking in changes in project-a/library and then checking them
> out in project-b/library, that will work without any special arrangements.
>
> Dale
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jhw@lmi.net [mailto:jhw@lmi.net]
>
> What I'm really hoping to get out of this is stuff like this:
>
> me:~ > svn cp project-a repo:/project-a/tags/tag0001
>
> ..and have this do the nice recursive thing of including an
> *simultaneous* tag of the library trunk inside the tag of
> project-a.
>
>
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