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Re: Sharing files across projects

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2006q2_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: 2006-06-19 23:22:48 CEST

On Jun 19, 2006, at 21:12, Ben Shamsian wrote:

> There was a feature request put in for Subversion to be able to
> share a file across projects:
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2421
>
> The person who requested their feature entered it as a task which
> was closed. I am looking to see if there is a corresponding issue
> for this request before I enter one. I looked in issue tracker but
> I could not find such a request. Other than source code files
> there are property files that we share across projects and
> maintaining multiple copies across projects is very cumbersome. I
> was wondering if this feature would ever get into Subversion.

If you can arrange your common files such that they're in a directory
on their own, then the "externals" feature would be of use to you.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.advanced.externals.html

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