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 copies, or about running svn co $URL $dir where $dir is a subdir or root of a working copy, or something else altogether. 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 > > 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- > > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 branch or tag will simply break things, or any > > reloaction of the source repository component will also break things. > > I'm also concerned that, should someone mix and match components > > inside the working copy manually, things will break in fascinating > > fashion, or that locally modified components will only be updated, not > > actually replaced. > > > > Has anyone been using this feature? It seems to work to do an "svn > > checkout" on top of an existing working copy of the same URL or > > earlier releases, but I've not tried rolling back the revision number > > or other games. I could spend a bunch of time checkout out border > > cases, but would welcome insights. > >
