Hi Dan... But Kevin has a point here, why make the task of the SCM system we have, SVN in our case, although it should be part of the build process, that is copying whatever resources to whatever destination we want ?
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Dan Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > I've taken to using svn update --ignore-externals which does the trick for me. > > Good enough? > > Dan > > Sent from my iPhone > > 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 >> > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Author of (WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0 User Guide) http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247585.html - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mnour - Blog: http://tadabborat.blogspot.com ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein "Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best." - Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship "Stay hungry, stay foolish." - Steve Jobs
