2007/6/4, troy d. straszheim <troy@resophonic.com>:
My workspace (CVS HEAD) contains some svn:externals that look like this:
iostreams https://svn.boost.org/svn/projects/iostreams/trunk variant https://svn.boost.org/svn/projects/variant/trunk date_time https://svn.boost.org/svn/projects/date_time/trunk (etc)
which means the code layout looks like that above. When I svn update, each of those subdirectories are updated recursively. I can make one commit across multiple projects.
From http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.externals: The support that exists for externals definitions in Subversion today can be a little misleading, though. First, an externals definition can only point to directories, not files. Second, the externals definition cannot point to relative paths (paths like ../../skins/myskin). Third,
No, commits don't pass into externals. the working copies created via the externals definition support are still disconnected from the primary working copy (on whose versioned directories the svn:externals property was actually set). And Subversion still only truly operates on non-disjoint working copies. So, for example, if you want to commit changes that you've made in one or more of those external working copies, you must run svn commit explicitly on those working copies—committing on the primary working copy will not recurse into any external ones. /$