On Dec 4, 2008, at 6:10 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> On Dec 3, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Chris McCormick wrote: >> >> I don't know about svn --ignore-externals, anyone care to expand on >> that? (yes, I can RTFM, but I am talking real world experience as >> related to Pd, which TFM will not tell me) > > hmm, "--ignore-externals" ignores external-references when doing a > checkout/update. > > probably a small real-world example can illustrate the use of > "--ignore-externals". > > one of the projects i am involved in, is the CUBEmixer, basically a > big > Pd-application. it depends on a few externals, hosted in the pure-data > repository. > > if you run > % svn checkout > https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/iem/spatialization/CUBEmixer/ > trunk/src/libs > you will get this directories (1st level): > libs/ > libs/popup > libs/folder_list > libs/hdspm_mixer > libs/aconnect > libs/hcs > libs/iem_ambi > libs/iem_bin_ambi > libs/iemgui > libs/iem_spec2 > libs/iemlib > libs/iemmatrix > libs/miXed > libs/osc > libs/net > libs/zexy > > however, if you don't care for all the external references, you > could do > instead: > % svn checkout --ignore-externals > https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/iem/spatialization/CUBEmixer/ > trunk/src/libs > you will only get: > libs/ > libs/popup > libs/folder_list > > so when using the "--ignore-externals" you can checkout a > repository as > if there were no svn:external properties set in this repo.
If someone will set this up and manage it when things break, then I will have no (major) complaints. >> What about the idea of >> having a separate section like /pure-data/svn-externals? If people >> object to having the imported releases in trunk, I can easily manage >> that in the pd-extended branch. > > to reiterate: i believe that nobody objects to having releases > imported. > the problem is that people do not make releases that could be > imported. > > and whatever you can easily manage, has to be managed by you; i don't > want to add another piece of work to your heap. What about the idea of having a separate section like /pure-data/svn- externals? .hc > > > > mfga.r > IOhannes > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- "[W]e have invented the technology to eliminate scarcity, but we are deliberately throwing it away to benefit those who profit from scarcity." -John Gilmore _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list