On 05.02.2019 12:26, David Aldrich wrote: > Hi > > In our embedded projects we have a register interface maintained by > our HW team and software that uses that register interface maintained > by our SW team. As the interface is constantly changing, we want the > software source files to reference a fixed version of the interface. > > In some projects the register interface and software are in separate > repositories. So the software simply references the register interface > using an svn external with fixed revision number. > > In other projects the register interface and software are in the same > repository. It is inconvenient to instruct all developers and users > to peg specific revisions of the register interface within their > working copies. Can we use externals in this situation, or is there > another solution?
Of course you can use externals that point to the same repository. Even better, you can use 'relative' externals for such cases. See: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html -- Brane
