RE: Re: Query: svn externals and export

Ryan,

Thanks for your thoughts.

> On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:34, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> > On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:15, Andrew Hardy wrote:
> >
> >> how should I construct a build
> >> script to cope with this - with the consideration that I may not know of
> >> future use of 'externals' e.g. the 'wibble' directory becoming
> >> externally referenced at some unknown time.
> >
> > You could non-recursively check out the parent directory ("svn checkout -N"), then "svn update" each directory that you do want. Doesn't matter if the directory is real or an external.
>
> Sorry, this appears to have been wishful thinking on my part. This works fine for normal directories, but does nothing for externals.
>
> > The depth feature (--depth) allegedly replaced the nonrecursive feature (-N) in Subversion 1.5 but I have not yet learned the new syntax so I don't know if it works the same.
>
> It looks like externals are only checked out if you use depth infinity.

> So I don't know an easy way to accomplish what you want. The only method that springs to mind is to read the svn:externals property in your script, parse it (in its many valid forms), figure out if it references a directory you want, and if so, check it out from the indicated URL instead.

I was hoping to avoid performing a checkout as this would create all the .svn directories, etc. and effectively double the data downloaded. I think that I'll have to export the 'trunk' to a temporary position and then copy the required directories, etc. to the final build location. A little messy...

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