Re: Shared/Common files in SVN

2011-02-24 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:46:27AM +0100, Marco Burato wrote: Have you seen this helper script? It might help. https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/svn-viewspec.py Having a feature like this in core svn would be nice, of course. And it has in fact been

Shared/Common files in SVN

2011-02-23 Thread Marco Burato
Hi, i'd like to propose a new feature/improvement to SVN. Some users have projects that share some files, usually the layout would be something like this: \Common \Project1 \Project2 \Project3 When working on a project, the developer needs to checkout the Project directory and also the

Re: Shared/Common files in SVN

2011-02-23 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:04:15PM +0100, Marco Burato wrote: 1) Improved sparse directories Sparse directories would be a solution, but they only work varying the depth of the checkout. If we could add a property or something to specify which directories must be included in the checkout than

Re: Shared/Common files in SVN

2011-02-23 Thread Marco Burato
Have you seen this helper script? It might help. https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/svn-viewspec.py Having a feature like this in core svn would be nice, of course. And it has in fact been discussed before. But nobody has stepped up yet to finish the proposed