Re: Query: svn externals and export

On Dec 10, 2009, at 03:14, Andrew Hardy wrote:

> On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:34, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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>> 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.
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> I was hoping to avoid performing a checkout as this would create all the .svn directories, etc.

Yes it would, if by "etc." you mean the contents of the .svn directories.

> and effectively double the data downloaded.

There is no difference in the amount of data downloaded from the repository server to the client between the checkout and export command. The difference is that the checkout command makes a second copy of the files on the client, and adds additional administrative data, in the .svn directories. So the only "problem" with a checked out working copy is the extra disk space it takes on the client; you'll have to compare the disk space available with the size of your project to know if this is going to be a problem.

The advantage of the working copy is that you can update it to the latest version simply, and only the differences are transferred over the wire, whereas if you only had an export, you'd have to export the whole thing again to get the updated version.

> 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...

There's no reason you couldn't directly use repository URLs to read the svn:externals properties. But I don't see much difference procedurally between using a working copy and using an export. They're both messy, the way you want to have it. You'll check out (or export) the trunk in some non-infinite depth, read the svn:externals properties in it (either out of the working copy or from the repository URLs), then check out or update (or export) additional directories inside, possibly recursively.

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