(for those who are interested: Chapter 7. Advanced Topics: Externals Definitions http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s03.html )
I'm +1 on this approach. From the tail end of the page from the SVN book, it looks like we'll have to be conscious of some issues if we do any future repository re-orgs, but hopefully we won't have to.
Joe
At 7:43 AM -0800 2/19/05, Martin Cooper wrote:
By using svn:externals, we gain several things:
1) We get a "free" copy of 'build' along with each subproject, meaning that it doesn't have to be checked out separately to build one subproject. Checking out 'core', for example, would be enough to build core.
2) The "free" copy means that we don't have to do anything special when building the source distros, since the 'build' directory will already be part of the checked out subproject when the distro is being created.
3) We don't have to mess with Maven properties to deal with two different build scenarios (i.e. checked out vs. source distro).
4) It's really simple! :-)
WDYT?
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