On a philisophical note, the three times I've changed source control tools in my career, the engineers have been receptive to re-arranging (refactoring) their code at the same time. It's an excellent time to do it. If they are willing to learn a new tool, then arranging the code in a more sane way is a logical extension of that.
In my experience, code is often laid out in a certain way because of tool limitations. At my last job, if I had imported our code base from PVCS to Perforce in the same exact layout, I'd just have been importing a whole slew of problems to another tool.
I agree that if you're already in SVN and using it, maybe it's not a good idea to re-arrange everything just for this problem, but if one is in the midst of switching from CVS to SVN, I'd seriously consider enforcing a sane code re-arrangement prior to importing the code. Your engineers may be more receptive to the idea than you think.
-Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org]On Behalf Of Andreas Magnusson
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 1:04 AM
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: vote: checkout a single file
Phillip Susi wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by single file checkout, but the problem you
> describe seems to have a simple solution to me.
>
> Organize your library project so that the source is in one directory and
> the headers and objects go into another directory. Use the svn:external
> attribute to 'attach' the library object and header directory to the
> projects that depend on it. Then when you do a checkout on the other
> projects, you'll get the library with them. If you want the source code
> to the library, you explicitly check out the source directory, which
> presumably you would configure your server to limit access to.
Well, the problem is that not all projects can just rearrange their
file-layouts over night. But might still want to use a better SCM than
for example CVS. On the other hand, I understand that this isn't trivial
to fix in the current WC code.
But once again, understand that most of the projects requesting this
feature, IMHO, cannot afford a rearrangement of their sources. At least
not initially.
Bye,
/Andreas
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