Ryan Schmidt wrote: >On Dec 26, 2017, at 02:00, Bo Berglund wrote: > >> In an earlier thread I asked about how I could simulate this in svn >> and to use the "svn externals" system was adviced. >> >> When I am now facing actually doing this I find that (unless I am >> mistaken) the externals only reference whole directories, which is not >> what I want. I need individual files from a couple of source >> directories containing commonly used files in every such project. >> >> Is it actually possible to do this in Subversion? > >Yes, file externals are possible in Subversion 1.6 and later. > >http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.html
but not accross different repositories from: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.html >File externals cannot refer to files from other repositories. A file >external's URL must always be in the same repository as the URL that >the file external will be inserted into. -- Lorenz
