[ILUG] Tip of the day: svn hackery

[Stephen Shirley]

On 18/08/06, CP Hennessy <cp.hennessy at openapp.biz> wrote:
> Or you could use svn externals feature e.g.
> $ svn propedit svn:externals /
> etc         file:///root/svn/etc
> boot       file:///root/svn/boot
<snip>
> No svn hacking involved :)

Ahh, most cunning. I did not know about that, thank you. It's not
quite as neat a result (you have to run svn commit on each external
manually, you don't get a global checkin, doesn't work on
non-directories etc), but it's probably good enough for the majority
of cases, and involves vastly less black magic -)

Steve
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