>
> Roth, Pierre wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there ( current 1.4.6 release ) or is planned ( next 1.5 svn
> > release
> > ) to have a "shared file" functionality with svn ?
> > i.e sharing files between projects (without using the svn:externals
> > property). One change to a file in one project would then be
> > automatically seen from other projects.
> >
> > Does not seem to exist on 1.4.6... But perhaps in 1.5 ?
> >
> >
> I use the following approach for maintaining shared files of my team's
> projects: each file in the repos has a property that contains
> a list of paths to this same file in the other projects. A
> pre-commit script uses this property to propagate changes
> made in a file in one project to the other projects. The
> script also automatically changes the property if a file is
> being copied between projects, renamed or deleted. With some
> carefulness (such as avoiding concurrent changes in multiple
> projects and avoiding using that property in working copies),
> this seems to work fine. I've been using this scheme for a
> couple of months now and everything has been going pretty
> smooth. The only issue was a bug fixed in 1.4.6 which caused
> the property updates to fail in some circumstances.
>
> Anyway, I'd love to have such a feature in the Subversion too :)
>
> Regarding,
> Dmitry
>
>
Fine ! Is your code available ?
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Received on 2008-01-09 14:55:01 CET