Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 23:42:07 -0400: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > wrote: > > 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. > > Oh, it's not *me* doing it. Someone, as part of their software build > environment, is doing the moral equivalent in their setup scripts of > this: > > svn checkout $URL $targetdir > make -C $targetdir install > > Then, for testing, they do this > > cd $targetdir > # Edit local files, not necessarily submitted to > upstream repository > > Then a day or a week later, they re-run the script. > > svn checkout $URL $targetdir
AFAIK, this will run 'svn up' and not lose local mods.
