On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:00 AM, David Weintraub <qazw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:14 PM, David Bartmess <dingod...@edingo.net> wrote: >> Thanks, that explains what I needed to know... Relative paths using a parent >> (..) or absolute paths aren't handled. So it won't work with my system, >> since all the build files point to a parent "sandbox" directory, not the >> current directory, for the dependencies... > > You can use relative paths, but they are relative to the repository. > For example if I had a directory at svn://repos/foo/bar/barfoo and it > had svn:externals = ../foobar, it would be referring to > svn://repos/foo/bar/foobar. > > Maybe you should read up on the book a bit. It sounds like you're > confused about what svn:externals do. > > They check out a repository directory that is located elsewhere in the > repository into your current working directory. Let's take the above > project. It would checkout in your working directory the directory > svn://repos/foo/bar/foobar under directory barfoo in your working > directory. > > What it sounds like you have is a build issue. That is, you have your > build referring to code that is not in your current working directory, > but happens to be located in a parent directory. That has nothing to > do with the svn:external property. > > -- > David Weintraub > qazw...@gmail.com >
There's still something you can do with svn:externals that might do the trick. If your repository structure is currently: / (repository-root) - proj-a - trunk - proj-b - trunk and your build system expects this: / (local-root-for-build) - trunk-of-proj-a - trunk-of-proj-b you can add a repository directory "build-me" under proj-a: / (repository-root) - proj-a - trunk - build-me - proj-b - trunk set the svn:externals on "build-me" to: ../trunk trunk-of-proj-a ^/proj-b/trunk trunk-of-proj-b this way, when you checkout build-me into your local-root-for-build, you will get the desired layout. (this will also work if you have proj-a and proj-b in different repositories, if you use different svn:externals syntax (e.g. fully-qualified or server-relative)) Itamar.
