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Re: Keeping common files in trunk and branch identical

Author ryandesign
Full name Ryan Schmidt
Date 2009-11-27 15:06:24 PST
Message On Nov 27, 2009, at 07:36, Asbjørrn Sæbø wrote:

>> If you know ahead of time which parts are likely to be kept common
>> among all versions, the best approach might be to split them into
>> libraries that are maintained separately and referenced as externals
>> be all versions that use them.
>
> That is certainly a possibility. The problem with it is that keeping
> it fine grained enough creates quite some overhead, I think. Basically
> I want to do this on a file level.

File-level externals do exist in recent versions of Subversion, with some additional restrictions.

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Keeping common files in trunk and branch identical Asbjørrn Sæbø <gaffe_1 at live dot com> Asbjørrn Sæbø <gaffe_1 at live dot com> 2009-11-26 06:10:59 PST
     Re: Keeping common files in trunk and branch identical blair Blair Zajac 2009-11-26 07:42:38 PST
         Re: Keeping common files in trunk and branch identical beppler Carlos Beppler 2009-11-26 08:00:27 PST
             Re: Keeping common files in trunk and branch identical Brian Brophy <brianmbrophy at gmail dot com> Brian Brophy <brianmbrophy at gmail dot com> 2009-11-26 08:10:56 PST
             RE: Keeping common files in trunk and branch identical Asbjørrn Sæbø <gaffe_1 at live dot com> Asbjørrn Sæbø <gaffe_1 at live dot com> 2009-11-27 05:32:37 PST
         RE: Keeping common files in trunk and branch identical Asbjørrn Sæbø <gaffe_1 at live dot com> Asbjørrn Sæbø <gaffe_1 at live dot com> 2009-11-27 05:30:33 PST
     Re: Keeping common files in trunk and branch identical Asbjørrn Sæbø <gaffe_1 at live dot com> Asbjørrn Sæbø <gaffe_1 at live dot com> 2009-11-27 05:36:14 PST
         Re: Keeping common files in trunk and branch identical ryandesign Ryan Schmidt 2009-11-27 15:06:24 PST
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