Andreas Pokorny wrote:
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 01:07:36PM -0400, Doug Gregor <dgregor@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
On Apr 2, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
Except that you can only use svn:externals for *directories*, not for individual files. So, for example, while I could use svn:externals to bring in directories like "boost/mpi" and "libs/mpi", I could not use them to bring in "boost/mpi/mpi.hpp". I've looked into svn:externals; either I missed something big, or they just aren't sufficient to do what we want.
This and because one could not have versioned links that point onto a specific version. I think in the boost-sandbox case this isnt that much of an issue, but for our needs that was too limiting.
Please note, that kind of links are supported: (from http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html) $ svn propget svn:externals calc third-party/sounds http://sounds.red-bean.com/repos third-party/skins http://skins.red-bean.com/repositories/skinproj third-party/skins/toolkit -r21 http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/skin-maker (look at the '-r21' in the last line) Greetings Adrián