RE: Re: Problem with svn:externals

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Peacock [mailto:john.peacock@havurah-software.org]
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 7:52 AM

> Gopalakrishnan, Dinesh wrote:
> > So, my requirement here is that when i do a `svn ci` from
> Folder-A, i
> > want all the changes in Folder-B, Folder-C and Folder-D to
> be checked-in.
>
> A lot of people have told you why you can't have that, but no
> one has told you how to get around that. You cannot, in a
> single transaction, commit all changes in A, B, C, and D, but
> there isn't anything to say that you can't commit them all
> sequentially (while sitting in Folder-A:
>
> $ svn ci && svn ci Folder-B && svn ci Folder-C && svn
> ci Folder-D
>
> You could even write a simple script that would have this
> effect, so you could use -F to share the same commit message.
>
> The issue that I don't think that the other people discussed
> was that each of the externals could be a completely
> independent repository, hence there is no concept of a single
> transaction covering all of the commits, which is a core
> design element of Subversion.
>
> HTH
>
> John
>

Additionally, I found from my own experimentation that if the "external"
is in the same repository as the project, a single commit WILL do both
the project and the external.

--
David
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