On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:48:21PM +0000, Dan Nessett wrote: > Bad etiquette to answer my own question, but I just reread the Externals > Definition section of the book and found this: > > "An externals definition can point only to directories, not to files." > So, what I have described won't work even if overloading with > svn:externals is supported.
You're probably reading an outdated version of the book. See the nightly edition: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html File externals are indeed supported as of 1.6, with the caveats I listed in my other reply (those problems aren't documented in the book). The current plan is to fix file externals in the upcoming 1.7 release. But, as I mentioned, externals cannot be used as "overlays". Stefan
