RE: Query: svn externals and export

Ryan,

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-2009d_at_ryandesign.com]
>Sent: 11 December 2009 10:02
>To: Hardy, Andrew
>Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org

>On Dec 11, 2009, at 03:58, Andrew Hardy wrote:
>
>>> The time taken to bring down the data from the repository
>server to the client is identical whether you're doing an
>export or a checkout. Unless you're not talking about the
>transfer between the repository and the client, but between
>some other two systems (if so, please explain).
>>
>> I *thought* that when a checkout is performed, you get the
>source files that you requested *plus* a duplicate set put
>into the .svn directories (primarily into the text-base
>directory)? An export doesn't build the duplicate .svn directories?
>
>The data is transmitted from the repository server to the
>client once, and the client saves the file in two places.

Ah... That makes sense! Thanks for the clarification. So I guess that my
issues between export and checkout are probably just to do with how I
'build' from the downloaded files.

Thanks for your patience.

-- 
Andy
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