I've taken to using svn update --ignore-externals which does the trick for me. 

Good enough?

Dan

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On 20 Nov 2010, at 17:42, "Kevin Meyer - KMZ" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Guys,
> 
> With Dan's last use of svn:externals to replicate copies of the 
> documentation resources (images and the DTD files) means that an 
> "svn up ." takes more than 15 minutes on my system - each directory 
> query takes between 15 to 20 seconds, and there are 63 directories 
> queried..
> 
> Since each directory is just a copy of the same source directory, can't 
> we instead have a script (or some other copying tool) to just copy the 
> 3 directories (docbkx/dtd-4.5, docbkx/style and docbkx/images) into 
> each destination?
> 
> Thus, I am requesting that only the main resource directory is fetched 
> from subversion (into, for example, trunk/src/docbkx/*), and some 
> other tool copy it from the local location into the required local 
> dependent project directories? 
> 
> I would settle for a simple (shell/command) script, but I realize this 
> could become a maintenance nightmare - better if maven manages 
> the copying, is this possible?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Kevin
> 

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