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

On Tue, 26 Dec 2017 12:23:45 -0600, Ryan Schmidt
<subversion-2016_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:

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>On Dec 26, 2017, at 02:00, Bo Berglund wrote:
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>> 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?
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>Yes, file externals are possible in Subversion 1.6 and later.
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>http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.html
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It seems like the externals have to be directories and not individual
files....
I tried to check out a file from svn but it failed miserably:

svn co https://server/svn/pc/project/trunk/file.pas src
svn: E200007: URL 'https://server/svn/pc/project/trunk/file.pas'
refers to a file, not a directory

-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden