On 02/12/2010, at 20:30, Scott Yan <scottyan_at_live.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At first, thanks for your great works, but our company really need inter-repository file-externals feature which is not supported now, so , is there any plan to do this?
>
> Below is our situation:
> There are a dozen sub-factories in our company , and we develop our ERP system ourselves, because there are very much diffrences between factories, our project became a dozen versions, which means we have a dozen repositoies for all the projects.
This scenario sound like you should probably have one repository with separate branches per version, rather than individual repositories. Then you wouldn't need externals at all.
> Obviously, there are many files are equal in these projects, we must share them between projects, but it's very difficult to share the whole directory because of many reason such as:
> 1. We use VSS before, and VSS support file share between projects, so we didn't place share files in seperate folder.
> 2. Usually, when we add a new module to the system , the whole module is shared in all the projects, but factories will ask some special functions for their own request, and there will be more and more files are diffrent from other projects.
> 3. there are several files are placed at root directory.
>
> For clearer description, I'll demonstrate our situation:
> Suppose there are 3 projects
> Project1
> Project2
> Project3
>
> There is a "HRManagement" folder in all of them.
> There are 100 files in HRManagement folder, 30 of them are equal between Project1, Project2 and Project3, but the others are not equal.
>
> If we make a new folder names "Share" below HRManagement, and place the 30 files to it:
> HRManagement/Share/sharefile1
> HRManagement/Share/sharefile2
> HRManagement/Share/sharefile3
> ......
>
> Because we reference sharefile1 as "HRManagement/sharefile1" before, so we must search the whole project ( in face, in all the projects, Project1, Project2, and Project3) for the old reference , and then change to "HRManagement/Share/sharefile1".
> And, this is just for a single file! There are sharefile2, sharefile3,...... to do the same work, which is impossile at all.
And if one of these shared files needed to be changed for a single version, you would have to undo all that work. Again, branches sound like a better fit.
> Thanks for reading this , and I really hope you will add the feature ...
>
>
> Best Regards
> Scott.Yan
>
>
Received on 2010-12-02 14:10:52 CET