--- On Mon, 17/11/08, John Niven <jniven_at_bravurasolutions.com> wrote:
> From: John Niven <jniven_at_bravurasolutions.com>
> Subject: RE: Nested checkouts?
> To: "Jon_at_eHardcastle.com" <Jon_at_eHardcastle.com>, "users_at_subversion.tigris.org" <users_at_subversion.tigris.org>
> Date: Monday, 17 November, 2008, 9:30 PM
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jon Hardcastle [mailto:jd_hardcastle_at_yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 18 November 2008 05:05
> > To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org; Jon_at_eHardcastle.com
> > Subject: Re: Nested checkouts?
> >
> > --- On Mon, 17/11/08, Jon Hardcastle
> <jd_hardcastle_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Jon Hardcastle
> <jd_hardcastle_at_yahoo.com>
> > > Subject: Nested checkouts?
> > > To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> > > Date: Monday, 17 November, 2008, 4:02 PM Hey..
> lets say i have the
> > > following structure
> > >
> > > /Binaries/
> > > /Source Code/SomeLanguage
> > > /Source Code/SomeOtherLanguage
> > >
> > > there is alot of code in the Source directory and
> my users
> > are taking
> > > to checking out just the Language that is useful
> to them,
> > and then the
> > > Binaries where they put compiled code
> (obviously). But what i am
> > > getting alot of is 2 commits.. 1 for the source
> code and the second
> > > for the binaries.. is there anyways i can nest 2
> working copies
> > > without checking out at the parent level?
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > >
> > > -----------------------
> > > N: Jon Hardcastle
> > > E: Jon_at_eHardcastle.com
> > > '..Be fearful when others are greedy, and be
> greedy when others are
> > > fearful.'
> > > -----------------------
> > >
> >
> > I forgot to say.. the reason being when they commit..
> it'll
> > appear as 1 commit.. and not 2!
>
> Hi Jon
>
> SVN 1.5 introduced sparse checkouts. Your users could
> checkout the repository root, specifying "--depth
> immediates" - this will check out every file at root,
> and directories (but the directories will be empty). They
> would then update the binaries directory (specifying
> "--depth infinity") to pull down that
> directory's contents. They'd then do the same for
> the one source directory that interested them.
>
> Incidentally, I'm not keen on keeping binary artefacts
> in SVN - it's redundant, since the artefacts are
> generated by the source files. Could you move the binaries
> directory to outside SVN, and have it populated by a build
> server? Users would then pull down (via FTP or similar) up
> to date artefacts as part of their local build process.
>
> Cheers
> John
>
> >
Ah we aren't using 1.5 (1.4.4 still :) )
As for the build server.. I see where you are coming from.. and I am investigated using scons to build this beast of a product.. but I keep hitting stumbling blocks getting it to compile VB!
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