Re: Externals - VSS

Steve O'Hara wrote:
> In my quest to convert from VSS to svn I've tinkered with the notion
> that all shared files have to exist in separate directories which are
> then referred to by the externals mechanism.
> However, am I right in thinking that if I make a change to a file that
> is from an external project, when I commit the changes, the changed
> external file will not be submitted to svn automatically?

The alternative (and I think better) approach to externals is to use svn
switch to get shared code. Say you have some shared code in
.../shared/libx and you want it in your working copy. Create an empty
folder where you want it and call it libx. Add and commit that folder.
Now do this:

svn switch .../shared/libx libx

Where ... is the rest of the URL. Now you will have libx in your
working copy, updates and commits will happen 'through' the switch. We
create a script at the top level of each project which executes the
switch commands. On most of them adding a -u unswitches them.

-- 
Martin Tomes
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