On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 17:24 +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 17:11, Joern RENNECKE wrote: > > > Moreover, I often want just a quick look at the source, and a checkout > > has quite > > a long latency for that. > > It ought to be less bad for SVN than CVS, particularly for older code, > and branches. Though I agree it's not going to be zero. > > > And finally, sometimes bugs in the checkout process or changes in the > > modules file > > can cause strange build failures. > > I'm not sure what SVN has in the way of modules support, but I'd be > *very* surprised if anything it had wasn't version controlled, so this > should be much less of a problem than it can be with CVS. >
It has svn:externals, which is more or less the modules file on crack. http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s03.html (It properly updates the modules when thye need to be updated. The only thing that doesn't work is recursive commits through external repositories. You need to run commit in each dir seperately).
