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Re: svn:externals : fetching only file in a directory

From: Evadream <evadream.mlist_at_evadream.net>
Date: 2005-01-09 05:25:56 CET

Thanx for your response :)
I've read the svn book, and it was clearly said that working with external
files was not possible. But i wasn't sure if there wasn't a way to do what i
want by considering ALL the file inside an external directory.

Have to wait the next release !

Thanx again !

On Sunday 09 January 2005 00:44, Rami Kayyali wrote:
> Unfortunately, this isn't possible. From what I've been told,
> svn:externals checks out a *versioned* working copy of the external
> directory, making it impossible to check out individual files. See
> this for more info http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch07s03.html.
>
> --
> Rami
>
> On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 22:50:28 +0100, Evadream
>
> <evadream.mlist@evadream.net> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > My problem is quite basic, maybe it as been (certainly) already posted,
> > but i didn't find it :/
> >
> > Here is my project tree
> >
> > ./
> >      foo/
> >      src/
> >
> > I'd like to add an svn:externals propertie to foo/, so i use :
> > svn propedit foo/ file:///tomarepos/utils/a_directory/
> >
> > It update my tree to ./foo/a_directory/ but i'd like to recover only the
> > files inside a_directory, i mean, i would like to have :
> >
> > ./foo/a_directory_file1.c
> > ./foo/a_directory_file2.c
> > ./foo/a_directory_file3.c
> > ...
> >
> > Is it possible ?
> >
> > Thanx for any answer !
> >
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Evadream wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> My problem is quite basic, maybe it as been (certainly) already posted,
> but i didn't find it :/
>
> Here is my project tree
>
> ./
> foo/
> src/
>
> I'd like to add an svn:externals propertie to foo/, so i use :
> svn propedit foo/ file:///tomarepos/utils/a_directory/
>
> It update my tree to ./foo/a_directory/ but i'd like to recover only the
> files inside a_directory, i mean, i would like to have :
>
> ./foo/a_directory_file1.c
> ./foo/a_directory_file2.c
> ./foo/a_directory_file3.c
> ...
>
> Is it possible ?
>
> Thanx for any answer !

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