RE: Windows XP and Junctions

2010-07-22 Thread Mike Newsome
Thanks Ryan, that confirms my thoughts (about junctions). I don't actually like them much! David, I don't intend using junctions normally, just when I was making a comparatively large change, and wanted to test it on all four projects, without checking in, and updating then finding another gotc

Re: Windows XP and Junctions

2010-07-22 Thread David Weintraub
You usually don't want to use links and junctions in your repository. This usually causes more problems than it is worth. Are you using the svn:external property? I'm not sure why you need to go around and make changes in all of your projects. The whole point of svn:external is to allow multiple p

Re: Windows XP and Junctions

2010-07-22 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 22, 2010, at 08:19, Mike Newsome wrote: > I have a set of ‘common files’ used between (at present) 4 projects, and > checked out via externals in each project. > > When a new revision of the common code is being readied, I need to go round > the 4 projects, updating the common code and