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RE: Help or suggestions on porting to subversion

From: Cooke, Mark <mark.cooke_at_siemens.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:50:13 -0000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giulio Troccoli [mailto:Giulio.Troccoli_at_uk.linedata.com]
> Sent: 11 November 2010 08:45
> Subject: RE: Help or suggestions on porting to subversion
>
> [CUT]
>
> >
> > > The thing we want is:
> > > - checkout single/scattered files from different directories
> > > - modify/commit them
> > > - group the files and tag this group (only the files in
> > > this group).
> > >
> > This is not AFAIK directly possible in subversion (or any
> > other similar tool that I have used). You could try using
> > file externals in a new project directory but I have not used
> > them and believe there are "issues".
>
> According to the book it is possible (at least the last bit)
>
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.tags.html#svn.bra
nchmerge.tags.mkcomplex
>
> Giulio
>
Ooo, thanks for that, learn a new thing every day.

However, I still think that the first step will be at least as
"expensive" as doing the work to reorganise into a more relevant project
tree which would then simplify the remainder of the steps. Without
knowing why the OP is where they are it is hard to understand why they
have to stay there.

~ mark c
Received on 2010-11-11 09:50:52 CET

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