On Mar 23, 2010, at 09:01, Tino Schwarze wrote: > We have an application which consists of multiple modules which are > packaged together, then installed into a Web-application layout. That > is: The repository layout differs from the final installed application > layout (files are distributed across the whole installation at various > places). > > For example, consider the following repository structure (I'm making > this up for simplicity): > > /trunk/module1/jsp/something.jsp > /trunk/module1/java/com/c4u/module1/Someclass.java > /trunk/module1/sql/create_scripts/sometable.sql > /trunk/module2/jsp/anotherthing.jsp > /trunk/module2/java/com/c4u/module2/Anotherclass.java > /trunk/module2/sql/create_scripts/anothertable.sql > > After repackaging and installing, these files are arranged like this: > > webroot/jsp/c4u/module1/something.jsp > webroot/jsp/c4u/module2/anotherthing.jsp > webroot/WEB-INF/classes/com/c4u/module1/Someclass.java > webroot/WEB-INF/classes/com/c4u/module2/Anotherclass.java > sql/c4u/module1/create_scripts/sometable.sql > sql/c4u/module2/create_scripts/anothertable.sql
You may want to look into file-level svn:externals available in svn 1.5 and later. I'm not certain this will 100% deal with your situation, but it's the only solution that comes to my mind.