On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:54:38 +0000, Humm, Markus wrote: ... > In my eyes nothing beats the simplicity and understandability of > svn:externals with one single level deep relative paths > to a directory above.
Exactly as long as you don't try to do svn checkout http://your/soft/ware/trunk dir-a svn checkout http://your/soft/ware/trunk dir-b in one and the same directory (namely $HOME, where I do this all the time). > Software should adopt as good as possible to the > existing workflow/structures. There should be no > need to completely rearrange projects just to get what one wants only 'completely rearrange' is a bit harsh for putting the CommonFiles external within instead of besides the tree checked out. Besides, the very idea of letting a checkout/clone create files outside of the target directory I specified is foreign to all other version control systems I used so far. Andreas -- "Totally trivial. Famous last words." From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
