On 02/12/2010, at 20:30, Scott Yan <scott...@live.com> wrote: > Hi, > > At first, thanks for your great works, but our company really need > inter-repository file-externals feature which is not supported now, so , is > there any plan to do this? > > Below is our situation: > There are a dozen sub-factories in our company , and we develop our ERP > system ourselves, because there are very much diffrences between factories, > our project became a dozen versions, which means we have a dozen repositoies > for all the projects.
This scenario sound like you should probably have one repository with separate branches per version, rather than individual repositories. Then you wouldn't need externals at all. > Obviously, there are many files are equal in these projects, we must share > them between projects, but it's very difficult to share the whole directory > because of many reason such as: > 1. We use VSS before, and VSS support file share between projects, so we > didn't place share files in seperate folder. > 2. Usually, when we add a new module to the system , the whole module is > shared in all the projects, but factories will ask some special functions for > their own request, and there will be more and more files are diffrent from > other projects. > 3. there are several files are placed at root directory. > > For clearer description, I'll demonstrate our situation: > Suppose there are 3 projects > Project1 > Project2 > Project3 > > There is a "HRManagement" folder in all of them. > There are 100 files in HRManagement folder, 30 of them are equal between > Project1, Project2 and Project3, but the others are not equal. > > If we make a new folder names "Share" below HRManagement, and place the 30 > files to it: > HRManagement/Share/sharefile1 > HRManagement/Share/sharefile2 > HRManagement/Share/sharefile3 > ...... > > Because we reference sharefile1 as "HRManagement/sharefile1" before, so we > must search the whole project ( in face, in all the projects, Project1, > Project2, and Project3) for the old reference , and then change to > "HRManagement/Share/sharefile1". > And, this is just for a single file! There are sharefile2, > sharefile3,...... to do the same work, which is impossile at all. And if one of these shared files needed to be changed for a single version, you would have to undo all that work. Again, branches sound like a better fit. > Thanks for reading this , and I really hope you will add the feature ... > > > Best Regards > Scott.Yan > >
