On Sep 6, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Andy Levy wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Robert Denton <robert@headsprout.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for listening. I am wondering what is advised as to the best
>> way to handle shared components across multiple projects in SVN.
>> Here is the situation:
>>
>> My boss, who has always used VSS before the introduction of SVN on
>> our network, likes to use shared libraries, etc in his projects and
>> will have the same file in a number of different locations. In VSS
>> he could just drag and drop the shared file into new projects and VSS
>> knew it was 'shared' component and any change made to it would apply
>> in all instances.
>>
>> With TortoiseSVN being a shell extention (and thus a different beast
>> entirely) we are not sure if simply creating a plain old file system
>> shortcut is sufficient to emulate this behavior. Is there some other
>> method or property used by Subversion to make a file as 'shared'?
>
> TortoiseSVN is simply a Subversion client. You probably want to use
> svn:externals to link another section of your repository (or a
> resource in a whole other repository) to your project. You can only
> set svn:externals at a directory level; you can't "share" a single
> file into another directory (I think VSS let you do this).
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html
>
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Hm.
I have googled on the matter to some degree and the general
concensus, as far as I can tell, is that this is a highly sought
after feature, and most of the posting I saw argued that using
svn:externals is NOT a solution, nor a work-around, since you can
only apply that property to folders and not files.
So given that svn:externals does not equate to VSS sharing, what
other solutions have people come up with to achieve this?
I hope me and my boss are not the only two people on the planet who
valued this feature in VSS. Are there any plans for building it into
SVN?
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