Hello, We tried a solution with junctions now (using a sysinternals junction tool which works under XP already). Server side in the repository all is well, but in the working copy it doesn't work as intended as Tortoise SVN gives us a faliure messaage on our checkin.
What did we do? We have this structure: D:\Test\Projekt1 D:\Test\Common We created a Junction inside D:\Test\Projekt1 named D:\Test\Projekt1\JunctionTest which points to D:\Test\Common so D:\Test\Projekt1\JunctionTest does exist as a hard link. Everything you insert there will turn up in D:\Test\Common and vice versa. Works fine with Windows. Now we created some folders on the server: /Projekt1/trunc /Common/trunc We defined a svn:externals on D:\Test\Projekt1 with these parameters: Local directory is JunctionTest and URL on the server points to /Common/trunc Tortoise SVN accepted that. We added everything below Projekt1 except JunctionTest to the repository which worked fine as the repro browser clearly shows. We separately added everything from Common to the repository so it went to /Common/trunc In the repository (repro browser) we can see now that JunctionTest links to /Common/trunk But in the working copy we cannot get this to work. A commit on Projekt1 via Tortoise SVN doesn't take the externals into account and a update on Projekt1 ends in a failure message: (translated from german) Externals failed d:\Test\Projekt1\JunctionTest Failure d:\Test\Projekt1\JunctionTest already exists and is no directory Best regards Markus Humm ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG Sitz der Gesellschaft: Bachmuehle 2, D-74673 Mulfingen Kommanditgesellschaft Sitz Mulfingen: Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRA 590344 Komplementaer: Elektrobau Mulfingen GmbH, Sitz Mulfingen, Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 590142 Geschaeftsfuehrung: Hans-Jochen Beilke (Vorsitzender), Thomas Borst, Hans Peter Fuchs, Dr. Bruno Lindl, Thomas Wagner
