kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com wrote on 06/30/2008 03:26:44 PM:
> Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com> wrote on 06/30/2008 03:17:14 PM:
> > kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com writes:
> > > Problem is, you can't do that the *first* time, right after you have
> > > set the property, since the external-subdir does not yet exist, and
> > > doing an "svn update dir/external-subdir" doesn't give any errors,
but
> > > doesn't do anything either...
> >
> > Oh, yup, right.
> >
> > What happens if you just check out the external manually right then?
Do
> > future updates (with the svn:externals property set) just handle the
> > subdir transparently?
>
> I had thought of this, but haven't tried it yet. (It just feels dirty.)
This does appear to work. Essentially just do a "svn co external-path
external-dir".
Then an svn up of the parent dir does think it is an external.
Kevin R.
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