On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 09:14, Asbjørn Sæbø <gaff...@live.com> wrote: > > Assume the following situation: There is a repository my_repo, structured > like this: > > my_repo > my_repo/trunk > my_repo/trunk/a > my_repo/trunk/a/file.h > my_repo/trunk/b > > where my_repo/trunk/b has an svn:external to import the contents of my_repo/a. > That is, b will have the contents of a external-ed in. > > Is this valid and sound SVN?
Yes, just be careful to avoid any recursive externals - having an external in a pointing at b, while having an external in b pointing at a, would probably result in your WC filling all available disk space. Last I knew, Subversion did not check for recursion in externals.
