On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Gour <g...@atmarama.net> wrote: > What about svn:externals? I know many projects, as well as the one in > question, use them a lot? > > Any optimal way to do it with Fossil?
I had forgotten about externals in SVN. I recall something about someone adding nested working space support in Fossil. IIRC, Fossil does not apply commands affecting an outer workspace to any nested workspaces. Also, IIRC, nested workspaces was a compromise to provide most of the benefit of externs wihtout the complexity.I don't recall all of the reasoning. However, to me, the right way to do this via symbolic links (But, under MS Windows, to create symbolic links, you must be (a) logged in as an admin, and (b) run a very obscure command that has to be explicitly installed. Also, the.LNK feature is not provided by the underlying kernel, but is a feature of the file browser, so they are not a useful substitute for actual symlinks.) (I suspect the lack of symbolic link support in MS Windows was a key reason why SVN has externals.)
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