On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:51:55 -0500, Bob Jamison <rwjj@...127...> wrote:
One of the requested features for Subversion is the ability to have something like "symlinks" in a tree, so that one SVN project could reference another. That way, a client project would get updates automatically, and also be able to contribute back with simple commits (if the user has commit privs, of course). I don't know the status of this. It would be especially useful for something like this.
Please no. SVN externals are made of pain and fail. It should be obvious why, if you think about it -- the external and local versions are not locked in sync, so you can't get a "known good" configuration when doing e.g. regression testing.
Every project I've been in that has used svn externals has eventually abandoned them for that reason.
-mental