Can we set a single file as external in Subversion?

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Reji S Nair picture Reji S Nair · Aug 31, 2009 · Viewed 21.2k times · Source

Can we set a single file as external in Subversion?

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Stefan picture Stefan · Aug 31, 2009

Yes, it's possible with svn 1.6. It's documented in the nightly build version of the svn book.

But even though file externals are working, you should only do it with text files (for now) because binary files won't work correctly as file externals.

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