Thanks, everybody. You've all been really helpful.
On 4/28/06, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:
> mike nicholaides wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I hope y'all can help me out. I've been googling and reading the
> > archives of this list for about a week now.
> >
> > I have a huge intranet project that I want to put under version
> > control. The problem I've run into is that the whole project is 1.3
> > GB, which means that checking out the whole project, even on the same
> > machine as the repository, takes forever.
>
> You have my sympathies. I've seen way, way, way too many programmers write
> their tools as "let's lump everything together and dependent on the same
> source tree". XFree86 was a prime example fo this.
>
> You need to look at this webpage:
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.externals
>
> Then you can create a workig branch directory, such as "build-hammer-1", and
> stuff the necessary external downloads into it.
>
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