Re: [boost] trunk vs release

Subject: Re: [boost] trunk vs release
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-22 11:28:02

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> troy d. straszheim wrote:
>
> > I share your worry.   Probably some scm mechanism should take care of
> > it.   I'm out of ideas for the moment.
>
> svn:externals in SVN allow you to have master copies of headers say in
>
>        libs/thread/include
>
> and have a copy checked out into
>
>       boost/thread
>
> while making commits in boost/thread work, and commit into the master
> copy. Disk requirements are a question, though.

I also really worried about this header issue.

Volodya, thanks for the svn:externals suggestion. I'll try to learn more
about svn:externals so I can form an opinion.

--Beman