Re: Branching & merging an external repository

On Sep 24, 2005, at 18:19, Michael Schuerig wrote:

> I'm working on a project where I rely on a third party framework.
> My own
> project as well as the framework are kept in their own subversion
> repositories. I have linked in the framework as an external and am
> tracking its HEAD version.
>
> As a complication I have changed the framework in several places.
> Updates are merged in or result in conflicts, that's fine as it is.
> What I'm scratching my head about is how to keep my changes under
> version control. I haven't found a way to do this, but my subversion
> skills are only somewhat basic. As I'm routinely updating the
> framework
> from its repository, I'm looking for an easy, automatic procedure.

Have you already looked at Vendor Branches?

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s05.html

It's not automatic, but I'm not sure if anything automatic exists for
what you want to do.

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Received on Sun Sep 25 01:00:37 2005