I appreciate the creative solutions, but I feel that we may be wandering a bit off track.
This SVN repository layout will NOT be changing. Mapping externals to every trunk/ directory seems like overkill, especially when features like --max-depth exist.
What little I've been able to find out about --parents suggests that it isn't going to be much of a help. It sound like it just simplifies having to deal with intermediate directories. That might simplify my checkout script a bit, but not much. And since SVN 1.7 appears to be bleeding-edge, I expect any SVN server upgrade I can initiate will be to 1.6 anyway.
If there's interest, I can post the bash shell script I'm working on that does most of the job of a full trunk-only checkout. Since it's mostly just SVN commands, it's likely that we'll migrate this into Ant eventually. I'm not happy about how brittle this script is, and I can't fully optimize it due to my ancient SVN server version. But I'll share my half-baked script if anyone cares.
Otherwise, it sounds like there is no consensus solution for dealing with this kind of repository layout. Thanks, all.
Received on 2011-08-11 20:26:24 CEST