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
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Received on 2008-01-09 14:55:36 CET