On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 2:04 PM, <dlel...@rockwellcollins.com> wrote: > > >> Designing a build >> management system on top of subversion using only externals >> is risky. > > I disagree, but we've had this conversation already. I'd be very welcome to > try anything to help our performance.
Externals can be very useful to assemble mixed revisions of separately-versioned components, but why do they have to be file-level? Are there other tools involved in the process that do not understand subdirectories or symlinks? Or just no natural groupings? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com