On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 06:23:29 +0000, Lorenz <loren...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>On Dec 26, 2017, at 02:00, Bo Berglund wrote: >> >>> In an earlier thread I asked about how I could simulate this in svn >>> and to use the "svn externals" system was adviced. >>> >>> When I am now facing actually doing this I find that (unless I am >>> mistaken) the externals only reference whole directories, which is not >>> what I want. I need individual files from a couple of source >>> directories containing commonly used files in every such project. >>> >>> Is it actually possible to do this in Subversion? >> >>Yes, file externals are possible in Subversion 1.6 and later. >> >>http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.html > > >but not accross different repositories > >from: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.html >>File externals cannot refer to files from other repositories. A file >>external's URL must always be in the same repository as the URL that >>the file external will be inserted into. Does this mean thta I can forget about externals then? I imported the CVS repositories by creating a master repository for each existing CVS repository and then cvs2svn was set to import each top level directory as a separate item. I am very confused about the terminology used here since sometimes documentation exeplifies a repository by a single project (like my top level CVS directories) and sometimes it looks like they talk about "projects" within a single repository. Which limitation is there really in the externals case? But then again, as I feared when reading the docs, it seems like an external can only be a directory and not a file within a directory... It seems impossible to check out a single file from a svn repository... -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden
