Re: Question regarding svn:externals and existing directories

On Apr 20, 2009, at 04:33, webpost_at_tigris.org wrote:

> The docs mention that the svn:externals target directory should not
> exist. I added this property to the root of my WC:
>
> http://framework.zend.com/svn/framework/standard/trunk/library/
> Zend_at_14980 library/Zend
>
> ... where the library directory existed, but not the Zend
> directory. Updating the WC (with Subclipse) did not check out the
> external project. Does the library directory also have to not exist?

I don't know. Try it out in a testing environment and see if that
fixes it.

The book says "subdirectories" (plural): "The relative target
subdirectories of externals definitions *must not* already exist"

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.externals.html

> I added the external to the library directory itself (target:
> Zend), and it worked fine.

This is the only way I have ever used externals and it works fine, so
I recommend you do it that way.

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Received on 2009-04-21 14:07:38 CEST