Re: Keeping common files in trunk and branch identical

On Nov 27, 2009, at 07:36, Asbjørrn Sæbø wrote:

>> If you know ahead of time which parts are likely to be kept common
>> among all versions, the best approach might be to split them into
>> libraries that are maintained separately and referenced as externals
>> be all versions that use them.
>
> That is certainly a possibility. The problem with it is that keeping
> it fine grained enough creates quite some overhead, I think. Basically
> I want to do this on a file level.

File-level externals do exist in recent versions of Subversion, with some additional restrictions.

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