forest-extension, svn:externals emulation..

Gábor Farkas gabor at nekomancer.net
Wed Aug 15 15:55:45 CDT 2007


hi,

i have a project where i am/was using svn and svn:externals,
and trying to reproduce it somehow with the forest extension,
but it did not work well (yet :), so maybe i'm just approaching
it from the wrong side...

here's what i'm trying to achieve (how it worked with svn-externals).

let's say i have project A and project B and project UTIL.
they all are svn repositories.

now, both A and B use the project UTIL, but maybe not the same version 
of UTIL.

with svn:externals, i can make sure,
that when someone checkouts project A, then a specific revision of UTIL 
will be checked out into A's "util" subdirectory.

and then later, everytime i do a "svn up", it also updates it's "util" 
subdirectory".

also, this is versioned, so basically project A's repo stores the 
url-to-UTIL and revision-of-UTIL for every revision of A.

this way, if i roll back to an older version of A, it automatically 
rolls back UTIL to the needed version too.

can this somehow be achieved with the forest-extension?

p.s: the usage of UTIL in A and B is quite read-only. i do not really 
commit to UTIL when it's inside A or B.

thanks,
gabor


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