On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Geoff Hoffman <ghoff...@cardinalpath.com> 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 [yourstuff] and [stuff pointing back to external's > home] then when you commit (in NetBeans anyway) it will show you a warning > about committing to multiple branches. > You can also svn update a specific file/dir to a specific (older, non-HEAD) > revision, though I've rarely if ever done this. > > HTH-
I've not seen it documented anywhere. Frankly, I think it's very dangerous due to potential conflicts with accidentally left behind material, especially if "svn:ignore" is used.
