On 13 Sep 2007, at 16:08, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
A cool thing I've been doing recently with the externals feature
is using them more like symlinks; so for portaudio you can put the
revision you want to stay static in a central location ( e.g. / svnexternals/portaudio) and then set /that/ as the external
directory. That way you still have a single copy, but it is
replicated to everywhere it is needed.How well does this really work in production? It's really pretty
easy to import code into repositories and manage it there. The
idea is cool, but I am not really up for beta testing svn
features. There are plenty of Pd bugs to deal with :D. This
import feature has been around for 10+ years in CVS at least.
I think it's robust enough, but in practice (in _my_ practice), it
can get hard to keep track of them, and I end up doing a lot of svnlook
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