> Take a look at <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.externals.html>.
> This is really what you probably want to do.
Thanks for your suggestions! I know of svn:externals, but as I said in
my mail, this approach is too heavyweight for my situation.
First, the files I usually want to share are something like a
bibliography or a macro file for tex documents, so it doesn't feel right
to create a separate repository for them.
Second, the set of files I want to share is very fluid: I might want
to share the file x between repositories A and B and y between B and C
and these sharings may change any time. Working at repository level
would not give me enough granularity.
Third, I usually work on repositories provided by different unrelated
people, so I don't have any personal long-time repository I could use. I
also see no reason to ask those people to set up a separate repository
for me.
All I want is to be able to use a single file from my hard drive in
several working copies, that's all! At the moment I can do it with
hardlinks, but they have their limitations, including that they don't
work for folders.
Would it be possible to implement symbolic link following in svn?
Shall I post a feature request/bug report? After all that is the
behaviour of almost all unix programs - they treat the links
transparently, unless there is a reason to do otherwise. That is where
the power of symbolic links comes from.
There has been a suggestion to use a script that would copy files and
then call svn. This is in fact what I have been doing so far, but I hope
you would agree that this should not be necessary.
Best,
Misha
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