Managing your svn repository with external ones

clemens — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:24:54 +0000

So you finally have your own svn repository. But you need to use external code as well. And you want to keep track of changes in those external code. Then use svn:externals. This tells subversion there are external subversion repositories destined to blend into the current folder. I learned this from a script thanks to Wim Leers

First let's create an externals to a repository in the current directory.

svn propedit svn:externals .

If this fails configure an editor like this

export EDITOR=vi

Insert this line

caffeine-hx http://caffeine-hx.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

[/highlightjs_code] which tells subversion that the directory

caffeine-hx
 has a remote repository

http://caffeine-hx.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

[/highlightjs_code]
Now run

svn up caffeine-hx
 and there it is. Your remote repository in full.
Not sure if your settings are ok? Use on of the following commands

svn proplist
svn propdel
svn propedit
svn propget
svn propset

free form:

propdel

propedit

propget

propset

svn:externals

build2be/com/e - propedit

Managing your svn repository with external ones