Re: Using subversion (or something else?)

On May 22, 2010, at 06:24, Gary wrote:

> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>
>> You can only svn copy with url's pointing to within the same
>> repository. Or you can do it locally in a checked out working copy and
>> commit it back.
>
> Ah okay. Thanks. Will try again next week when I am back at
> work. Perhaps the redbook is misleading here then, because going purely
> by the text in the commands shown in the example it looks like two
> different repositories are involved:
> ,----
> | $ svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/vendor/libcomplex/1.0 \
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/libcomplex \
> ^^^^^^^^^^
> | -m "bringing libcomplex-1.0 into the main branch"
> `----

The Subversion project generally uses term "repos" to abbreviate the word "repository", *not* the word "repositories" as I also originally thought. I personally tend to use the term "repo" to abbreviate the term "repository" since I find this much clearer.
Received on 2010-05-24 10:51:53 CEST