Alternate Meta-folder Names for Mixing WC's

Often one has a repo for versioned code and one for config. There may even be another for content. Yet checking out overlapping working copies won't work since all use ".svn" folders.

If the meta-folder names could be customized then overlapping working copies would be possible. A switch, environment variable, or even just a sym-link to the Svn binary under a different name are all viable means. My preference is to use ".[argv-0]" and/or a switch like "--meta .mysvn". With the switch one could even notify Svn there are multiple WC's involved.

Of course moving or deleting mixed folders is a problem unless each command is aware of all the WC's. Consolidating all the scattered meta folders under a single, root folder like Git or Bazaar may help.

While ensuring atomic commits across multiple repo's would be nice it is usually not required. And doing so would mean the server has to have a two-phase commit mechanism. Without this feature the servers wouldn't even need to know the client is mixing WC's. So no server changes should be needed.

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Received on 2009-09-17 07:24:08 CEST