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Are subversion externals an antipattern?
Subversion lets you embed working copies of other repositories using externals, allowing easy version control of third-party library software in your project.
While these seem ideal for the reuse of ...
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Can I emulate svn:externals using mercurial?
We are considering a move from SVN to Mercurial, and have encountered a stumbling block.
We currently use svn:externals to automatically pull a common set of libraries into the working directory. I ...
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Can we set a single file as external in Subversion?
Can we set a single file as external in Subversion?
Reji S Nair
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Unfixable mixed-revision working copy in SVN
I have a branch checkout that is clean (no modifications), but I cannot reintegrate the trunk back into my branch, because SVN thinks I have a mixed-revision working copy:
c:\myproject> svnversion
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git & svn externals - a final solution yet?
this is the workflow I currently use for my svn projects (I never use svn branches, and some projects are actively worked on by other people as well):
on the server, do the inital git svn fetch which ...
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How to have TortoiseSVN always freeze svn:externals for tags
Is this possible with tortoiseSVN?:
Always freeze svn:externals for tags
the scenario is our trunk will always use the 'HEAD' revision for externals, however when we create 'tags' we would like for ...
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A true, robust, git svn externals solution?
When you check out a git repository that contains svn externals, it will simply ignore them. What people have done is create many scripts, many of them mentioned in this question How do I keep an svn:...
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SVN externals repo "is already locked" on update
Basically I have to repo on the same server:
svn://repo/foo
-> checked out to d:\foo
svn://repo/bar
-> d:\foo has an svn:external property set to check this out into d:\foo\bar
When an "svn:...
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git svn - clone repo with all externals
I want to use git to clone a svn repository, but unfortunately, where svn checkout gets the repo with all externals, git svn clone only gets the repository without externals. How can I get the ...
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Shared components throughout all projects, is there a better alternative than svn:externals?
My situation: I have several components, which sometimes have changes to them, and are shared across a lot of different projects. Each project puts these in a subfolder called /depends. The depends ...
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Does SVN support some sort of comments in its properties?
I want to use SVN externals on my projects to include a number of third party plugins. I've found this blog post recommending saving the svn:externals value in a file (called svn.externals) with the ...
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Why are git submodules incompatible with svn externals?
There are lots of webpages out there suggesting hackish ways to make svn externals look like git submodules. I have read some accounts of what the difference is, but this doesn't seem very fundamental:...
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Reintegrate a branch with externals fails in SVN
What I am doing:
Apply external properties to a folder in the trunk (both single file and folder external, externals are binary files)
Create a branch from the trunk and update the entire project
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How to get SVN to ignore a directory inside an externals definition
I'm using subversion to host my own repository for a WordPress installation. I've got it set up so that all of the core WordPress files are in their own directory (called wordpress) and set up to use ...
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When updating a whole project's root, how can I exclude svn externals from being updated?
Is there a way to exclude all svn externals when doing a recursive update?
Is there a way to exclude only 1 of all of the svn externals when doing a recursive update?
Basically I'd like to cut down ...
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How to use subversion's propset against a URL?
Is it possible to manipulate a subversion property such as svn:externals via a URL only? (i.e. without having a working copy.)
I'd like a script that pins svn:externals to a particular revision ...
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How to do internal svn:externals
I'm trying to set up a sort of symbolic link in our subversion repository with svn:externals, but it's not really working all that well. What I want to do is link a folder in one part of the same ...
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Single Image File to be SVN Externals
I'm trying to add an image as svn:externals but TortoiseSVN refuses it somehow.
Currently I have two repositories on my local drive named repoA and repoB. Also there are two checkouts of working ...
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SVN: Update working copy to exclude externals with TortoiseSVN?
Is there a way to update a working copy to exclude externals with TortoiseSVN?
I have a working copy that I checked out with externals. I'm doing some updates to my include paths and now have these ...
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How to update Subversion externals
We have several subversion repositories: one for common code and one for each top level project. The top level projects have a svn:external link to the trunk of the common repository.
Before we ...
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Sparse checkouts and svn:externals
I'm trying to do a sparse checkout of a folder containing externals, but none of the externals are being checked out. This issue seems to indicate that this behavior may be by design, or at least that ...
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Update svn checkout to specific date including externals
I want to perform an svn update to a specific date, and I can do this with svn update -r {2010-10-17}. Unfortunately when this encounters an external it will do the update within the external without ...
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Is the subprepos feature in Mercurial 1.4.x ready for production use?
I'd like to evaluate Mercurial for my working projects. But most of my projects very heavily rely on the presence of svn:externals-like support. I've searched over StackOverflow and googled for ...
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svn:externals : Having more than one external repository in a local directory
Is it possible to have 2 (or more) external repositories linked to a local directory ?
For example, I have a file named externals and containing :
http://somewhere/dev/trunk/F01common.lib include
I ...
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Best practice use of svn:externals
Let's take three cases:
This statement is good. 999 is a peg. This is the so-called "old format":
foo -r999 http://myrepo/foo
Alternatively, the peg can also be specified like this (in the "new ...
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How to set a revision number for svn external?
So I have this file Mobile.framework and if I do a svn propedit i get
svn propedit svn:externals
It brings up
Mobile.embeddedframework svn+ssh://../Mobile.embeddedframework
This is pointed to the ...
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How to fetch a Subversion external without fetching all other directories and subdirectories
I have a Subversion repository called 'repo'. Inside of repo are trunk/ and branches/ directories. Within branches/ there are several dozen release branches, e.g. 1.0/, 1.1/. These branches/ ...
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Setting Up SVN:Externals with TortoiseSVN in Windows
I'm trying to set up svn:externals with TortoiseSVN on a Windows machine. I have two projects and both repositories have been already created on the same local machine.
The current structure looks ...
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Changing svn repository url in externals property
I'm moving my repository to a new location, but I have folders with the (same) repository URL hard-coded in the externals properties. e.g:
old URL: https://OldLocation.Domain/svn/
new URL: https://...
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How to check if svn external is set for a repository?
I have an old repository (SVN) and I am not sure if svn external is set for it, and if yes.. for what path?
Is there a way to find that out?
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SVN update command to target a single externals subfolder?
I have a bunch of externals directories in a plugins folder.
~> svn propedit svn:externals .
akismet http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/akismet/trunk/
stats http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/stats/...
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Is it normal that SVN external files are not committed?
I'm fairly new to Subversion and recently learned how to automatically import files which belong to other repositories using svn:externals. And now when I commit the trunk folder and create a tag to ...
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How can I get TeamCity to check out SVN externals?
I have a project which TeamCity is downloading from SVN to build. The problem is that I have some externals in the project which SVN does not download and therefore the build fails. is there some ...
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Svn repository stopped working with svn+ssh (but works locally on the server)
I had an svn repository that I used to checkout with the svn+ssh protocol. It has some EXTERNALS in it that refer to itself with the svn+ssh URL.
I was off this project for a while until today. When ...
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svn: clean way to replace external with local folder of same name
I have a repository checked out in various places. I have a folder X that is an external to another repository. I want X to be local. There are other questions but they don't seem to have run into my ...
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SVN Development and Release Process - Sanity Check
I am creating a process for working with version control and my web based application. This is what I have so far:
I am doing main development under branches/development and keep that in sync with my ...
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How to deal with partial svn:externals when migrating to Git?
I would like to import a SVN repository into a GitHub Enterprise repository
There are many questions related to this matter and most of them can be addressed either with Git submodules or Git subtree....
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Migrate from svn to git keeping svn-externals
I am migrating from an svn repository to git.
This svn repository has svn-externals, to be kept on svn repositories. These external are versioned and tagged in the history, and are read only.
How I ...
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Find paths with svn:external properties with certain string?
I've a very large subversion repository, it's about 7 GB in size and holds many many files and directories from different projects.
Now I did some major change to one project structure which is ...
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How to forbid subversion commits to svn:external to revisions?
We use svn:externals to specific revisions of a library, e.g. like
xyzlib -r12345 https://asdf.asdf.local/xyzlib/trunk/
When you make a modification in your working copy to such a checked out ...
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How can I redirect svn urls to another domain?
background: DynDNS has now started to require a once a month logon to keep their free accounts active (previously you only had to renew your IP address once a month). I am sure sooner or later I will ...
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SVN: Ignore externals when committing
Is it possible to ignore the commit of externals in SVN?
Example:
I have a project and one of the subfolders is an external:
svn:externals
my_remote_folder http://svn.whatever.org/blah/trunk/
This ...
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Configure (or mimic) svn:externals to include code from Github in a svn-hosted project
We use Subversion locally, and we're working on a project that uses a fork of Fluent NHibernate, which is hosted on Github.
I'd like it set up so that a single svn checkout will retrieve everything ...
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svn: removing an external in the working copy?
I moved one of my (single-file) externals to another directory, but its presence persists in my working copy. If I delete the file and then svn update, it gets restored.
How can I get rid of the ...
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svn:externals & tagging, how to combine code between teams
In our company, we are working on a product composed of different C/C++ modules. Ideally, each tier and module should be developed by separately by different teams and tested independently. Currently, ...
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svn to git migration with nested svn:externals
Migrating from svn with svn externals, to git.
Each svn externals may have it's own svn:externals. There is no guide how to migrate svn with externals to git here that I found useful.
Each branch may ...
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How to deploy Subversion externals?
We're testing the waters with SVN, with Beanstalk as a host. Our setup looks something like this:
Repository: Modules
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Repository: Website 1
Custom website code
svn:External ...
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Avoiding SVN recursive checkout of externals
I have a super-project which svn:externals several other projects. They, in turn svn:external their own dependencies. One of my issues is that my dependencies often depend on the same svn:external (...
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The Mercurial hgsubversion extension gets SVN Externals to behave like Hg sub repository
This question is related to Using the Mercurial hgsubversion extension with SVN Externals. However, the second part of the question relating to doing a hg svn update has not been answered.
Is it ...
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What's the benefits of "svn:externals"?
I would not get to know svn:externals if I haven't run into the this page. So, I setup my working folder. Then
mkdir lib/vendor
svn add --parents lib/vendor
svn ps svn:externals 'symfony http://svn....
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