Re: Is it possible to checkout multiple trees into same folder?

On 9/16/07, rsivak@istandfor.com <rsivak@istandfor.com> wrote:
> What about externals? Can't they be used somehow to accomplish this?

Subdirectories populated via externals are actually separate working
copies, so if you want one commit to catch everything, it won't work
(the commit will skip the changes in the external directory).

> Russ
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Andy Levy" <andy.levy@gmail.com>
>
> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:20:02
> To:"Frank Church" <vfclists@googlemail.com>
> Cc:users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Is it possible to checkout multiple trees into same folder?
>
> On 9/15/07, Frank Church <vfclists@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Is it possible to checkout multiple trees into same folder?
> >
> > I want to set up working copies from different branches of a
> > repository into the same folder. Is that possible?
> >
> > When I want to do a commit can subversion know which files come from
> > which branch and commit them to that branch? If it can't will the
> > branches have to be explicitly named? The main thing to be sure is
> > that the folder and file names in the root are different.
> >
> > Will this work?
> >
>
> Same answer you got on svnforum.org. You can't check out from 2 URLs
> into the same working copy directory.
>
> You can do this:
> mkdir myWCs
> cd myWCs
> svn co <URL_TO_BRANCH1> branch1
> svn co <URL_TO_BRANCH2> branch2
>
> But those are independent and separate WCs - you have to commit each
> individually.
>
> You cannot do this:
> mkdir myWCs
> cd myWCs
> svn co <URL_TO_BRANCH1> .
> svn co <URL_TO_BRANCH2> .
>
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