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Re: Combining files from different projects into a new project?

From: Lorenz <lorenznl_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 06:23:29 +0000

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>On Dec 26, 2017, at 02:00, Bo Berglund wrote:
>
>> In an earlier thread I asked about how I could simulate this in svn
>> and to use the "svn externals" system was adviced.
>>
>> When I am now facing actually doing this I find that (unless I am
>> mistaken) the externals only reference whole directories, which is not
>> what I want. I need individual files from a couple of source
>> directories containing commonly used files in every such project.
>>
>> Is it actually possible to do this in Subversion?
>
>Yes, file externals are possible in Subversion 1.6 and later.
>
>http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.html

but not accross different repositories

from: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.html
>File externals cannot refer to files from other repositories. A file
>external's URL must always be in the same repository as the URL that
>the file external will be inserted into.

-- 
Lorenz
Received on 2017-12-27 07:25:22 CET

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