Re: [boost] [sandbox] SVN externals, and large subdirs.

From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-25 10:30:29

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>
>>> What the wiki doesn't mention is that we have both 'sandbox-branches', 
>>> and 'sandbox-tags'. Seems reasonable to keep that arrangement.
>> I'm not sure I agree. If sandbox projects are managed individually, why
>> not letting them care for their own branching arrangements (i.e. local file layout) ?
> 
> Because then when one checks out the boost/sandbox one will also get a 
> bunch of "copies" of all the projects. AFAIK the arrangement was 
> designed such that one can check out boost/sandbox or boost/stable or 
> boost/devel, and have a simple tree. I know this isn't the "recommended" 
> svn layout but personally (even though I didn't come up with it) it 
> seems more _humane_ than the recommended.

Why would anybody check out the whole sandbox ? I'd expect people to
check out individual projects. And, if many people do want a single
sandbox (for example defined as the set of all sandbox trunks), one can
easily set up such a metaproject using svn:externals. (see, another good
use case for it ! ;-) )

Regards,
                Stefan

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