Re: Multi-module repositories

Hi Peter,

I think what you are looking for are svn:externals. Take a look at the SVNBook
at

        http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html

In your case, it might be appropriate to define a new project module-BC with
the following svn:externals properties on its trunk-directory:

        module-B file:///repository/module-B/trunk
        module-C file:///repository/module-C/trunk

This way, both projects are checked out into one common working directory
with

        svn checkout file:///repository/module-BC/trunk modules-BC

and you can happily work with both of these.

Kind regards
Martin Eisenhardt

On Friday November 18 2005 16:50, Peter Herth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following situation working with svn and wondered, whether
> there is an easy way to do the following that I am overlooking.
>
> I want to put a large software project into one subversion
> repository. This project consists of modules - so far these
> modules were independant CVS modules. So my svn repository
> might look like:
>
> repository/
> module-A/
> trunk/
> files-of-A
> module-B/
> trunk/
> files-of-B
> module-C/
> trunk/
> files-of-C
>
> In reality, there would be many more modules, but I usually want
> to only check out a few selected ones from the repository into a
> directory called "work", eg:
>
> svn checkout file:///repository/module-B/trunk module-B
> and perhaps
> svn checkout file:///repository/module-C/trunk module-C
>
> so that my work directory looks like:
>
> work/
> module-B/
> files-of-B
> module-C/
> files-of-C
>
> now that works, but to do an update/commit on any change of B and
> C, I do have to go into the corresponding subdirectories and do an
> update or commit there. In the case of update, this is merely
> inconvenient, but imagine, a change of a file of B and one of
> another file in C are actually one operation. So being able
> to perform a single atomic commit on the change would be great.
> (If it would not be possible to perform an atomic commit, then
> there would be no real reason to keep the two modules in the
> same repository in the first place).
>
> Peter
>
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