RE: Doing svn checkouts on top of svn checkouts?????

2011-07-12 Thread Bert Huijben
> -Original Message- > From: Andreas Krey [mailto:a.k...@gmx.de] > Sent: dinsdag 12 juli 2011 10:07 > To: Geoff Hoffman > Cc: Subversion > Subject: Re: Doing svn checkouts on top of svn checkouts? > > On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:30:06 +, Geoff Hoffman wrote: &

RE: Doing svn checkouts on top of svn checkouts?????

2011-07-12 Thread Bert Huijben
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d...@daniel.shahaf.name] > Sent: dinsdag 12 juli 2011 5:47 > To: Nico Kadel-Garcia > Cc: Geoff Hoffman; Subversion > Subject: Re: Doing svn checkouts on top of svn checkouts? > > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Mo

Re: Doing svn checkouts on top of svn checkouts?????

2011-07-12 Thread Andreas Krey
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:30:06 +, Geoff Hoffman wrote: ... > To clarify what I meant - say you have Repo-A/Path-B and Repo-X/Path-Y. You > could cd into your working copy of Path-B and do svn checkout Repo-X/Path-Y > Y and end up with B/Y in your working copy such that changes under Y commit > to

Re: Doing svn checkouts on top of svn checkouts?????

2011-07-12 Thread Geoff Hoffman
> > Geoff Hoffman wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 18:20:41 -0700: > > This is a feature, yes. Subversion does allow your working copy to point > to > > more than 1 svn path. > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Geoff: you cannot point a single working copy item at more tha

Re: Doing svn checkouts on top of svn checkouts?????

2011-07-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 23:42:07 -0400: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Daniel Shahaf > wrote: > > Geoff: you cannot point a single working copy item at more than one URL. > > (well, unless you create two externals with the same target file.  Don't > > do that.) > > >

Re: Doing svn checkouts on top of svn checkouts?????

2011-07-11 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Geoff: you cannot point a single working copy item at more than one URL. > (well, unless you create two externals with the same target file.  Don't > do that.) > > Nico: explain /exactly/ what you have been doing (best: a script(1) > transcr

Re: Doing svn checkouts on top of svn checkouts?????

2011-07-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Geoff: you cannot point a single working copy item at more than one URL. (well, unless you create two externals with the same target file. Don't do that.) Nico: explain /exactly/ what you have been doing (best: a script(1) transcript). I don't know if you are complaining about nested working cop

Re: Doing svn checkouts on top of svn checkouts?????

2011-07-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 11, 2011, at 21:05, Geoff Hoffman wrote: > (This list is reply-above isn't it?) Not usually: http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/mailing-lists.html#top-posting

Re: Doing svn checkouts on top of svn checkouts?????

2011-07-11 Thread Geoff Hoffman
Oh, I completely agree -- in the vast majority of cases you definitely want to avoid doing it. I'm just explaining why it doesn't throw errors at you. Cheers - (This list is reply-above isn't it?) On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Geo

Re: Doing svn checkouts on top of svn checkouts?????

2011-07-11 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Geoff Hoffman wrote: > This is a feature, yes. Subversion does allow your working copy to point to >> 1 svn path. > Sounds a lot like when you use svn:externals. This may be the more > "standard" way of achieving what you're talking about. > If you change code in [

Re: Doing svn checkouts on top of svn checkouts?????

2011-07-11 Thread Geoff Hoffman
This is a feature, yes. Subversion does allow your working copy to point to > 1 svn path. Sounds a lot like when you use svn:externals. This may be the more "standard" way of achieving what you're talking about. If you change code in [yourstuff] and [stuff pointing back to external's home] then w

Doing svn checkouts on top of svn checkouts?????

2011-07-11 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
I just ran into a fascinating configuration where someone is doing Subversion checkouts on top of existing Subversion checkouts. I'd never even *THOUGHT* of pulling such a stunt, but it's apparently workable. I'm concerned, though, that any change in the source of the Subversion checkout to a bran