Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2007 11:54 schrieb IOhannes m zmoelnig: > Russell Bryant wrote: > > While svn:externals is certainly handy, it's something to only use where > > it makes sense. If a certain set of externals is primarily developed > > elsewhere, then it probably does make sense to use it. But, it comes > > down to depending on one of two factors: > > > > 1) You don't maintain any changes that aren't made in the upstream > > repository. > > > > or > > > > 2) You are able to have your own branch in the upstream repository to > > maintain your changes. > > > > If neither 1 or 2 is true, then svn:externals does not make sense. > > 3) the "upstream repository" can really be the same repository. > you can use svn:extenals to re-organize a part of the repository to fit > your special needs (e.g. have a flat hierarchy for easy-built in > pd-extended) > > (you can also do this with "symlinks" (on an svn-level), but i think > this makes things more complicated (e.g. you must have checked out the > entire tree on filesystems that support symlinks)) > > Yes in fact this was my intention also, if we build a pd-dist for special projects, we just make a collection of the needed parts with svn:externals either with a special revision of the part or the head, a branch or tag. So it easy for everybody to do so.
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