Re: [Boost-users] Updating my local boost.

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Updating my local boost.
From: Nat Goodspeed (nat_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-06 16:37:21

Probably way too late to help the OP, sorry...

Robert Jones wrote:

> I guess this question is more appropriate to the Subversion maillist, 

um, yeah.

> My organisation maintains its boost libraries under its own Subversion
> repository.
> 
> I basically want to overwrite our existing boost code with
> the newer code, but maintain our local edit history so we can see what's changed
> locally between our old boost code and new. 

I'm a little surprised that no one mentioned the official Subversion 
recommendation for exactly this scenario:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s05.html
That's how we track locally-modified third-party libraries.