On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:02:20 +0100, Bo Berglund > <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>vProject >> |--- src (all sources from the physical project module) >> |--- bin (the binary output from the project) >> |--- cmn (selected files from a "Common" project module) >> |--- lib (maybe some selected binaries needed by the project) > > So I have found that using externals in the "normal" projects sort of > solves my main problem of including library and common files into > different real projects. > However I have now run into a slightly different problem: > When I declare the external I have not found a way to limit the depth > of recursion such that only the top directory of the external gets > checked out.. > > I use an open-source library in several projects and it contains a doc > subdirectory with essentially a website of html and image files. I > don't want these 77 files to be checked out as externals if I can > avoid it, but limit to the 8-10 source files in the top level code > directory. > > Can this be done using some externals flag?
No, I'm afraid that's not possible at the moment. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-3216. -- Johan