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2011-06-14 Thread Richard Cavell
More noob questions about svn... 1. Is using externals a good idea? I've been told that it's generally a bad idea, and it feels to me like a bad idea, since it obfuscates what's going on in the repo. Is it often done for professional projects? 2. Is there a means of keeping part of a file p

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2011-06-14 Thread Andy Levy
Please use more descriptive subjects than "questions." It makes the information much more searchable and helpful in the archives. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 09:15, Richard Cavell wrote: > More noob questions about svn... > > 1.  Is using externals a good idea? > > I've been told that it's generally

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2011-06-14 Thread Talkov, Roger
We have used externals on a couple of projects where they have been very useful. They have not obscured anything as all svn commands will work on them. From: Richard Cavell [mailto:richardcav...@mail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 6:16 AM To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: More

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2011-06-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/14/2011 8:15 AM, Richard Cavell wrote: More noob questions about svn... 1. Is using externals a good idea? I've been told that it's generally a bad idea, and it feels to me like a bad idea, since it obfuscates what's going on in the repo. Is it often done for professional projects? The p

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2011-06-14 Thread Stefan Hett
Hi, More noob questions about svn... 1. Is using externals a good idea? I've been told that it's generally a bad idea, and it feels to me like a bad idea, since it obfuscates what's going on in the repo. Is it often done for professional projects? It depends on the use-case. There are situ

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2011-06-14 Thread Geoff Hoffman
It's only a bad idea to use svn:externals if you don't know what they're for and don't want to invest the time to learn. If you do not want multiple copies of code, for instance, a library shared by more than one app, then it is not only smart, it's the best (only) way to do it. If you only are g

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2011-06-15 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 14, 2011, at 08:15, Richard Cavell wrote: > 1. Is using externals a good idea? > > I've been told that it's generally a bad idea, and it feels to me like a bad > idea, since it obfuscates what's going on in the repo. Is it often done for > professional projects? Using *file* external

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2011-06-15 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:32:53PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2011, at 08:15, Richard Cavell wrote: > > > 1. Is using externals a good idea? > > > > I've been told that it's generally a bad idea, and it feels to me like a > > bad idea, since it obfuscates what's going on in the