[ILUG] Tip of the day: svn hackery

[Kae Verens]

Stephen Shirley wrote:
> 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 -)


instead of checking out /boot and /etc, followed by /, can you not just forgo 
the first two and simply check out / ?

Kae