How to get started with svn:externals?

svn tortoisesvn externals
Joel Coehoorn picture Joel Coehoorn · Mar 19, 2009 · Viewed 79.2k times · Source

I'm looking for a succinct and well-written tutorial on using svn:externals.

I already know how to use them in a basic way myself, but I want a good article that I can link to when answering questions like this one that come up recently:

What to do with multiple projects depending on the same source?

I'd do it myself, but I don't use them often enough to want to stick my neck out and write a tutorial on it. Google was surprisingly unhelpful with this topic.

Answer

Ole Lynge picture Ole Lynge · Mar 19, 2009

Here are some sections about it in the svnbook / TortoiseSVN manual:

This is the svnbook page on svn:externals. It is the most useful resource on the subject.

This one explains four ways to include sub-projects in the workflow (and in the process misses a fifth one: symlinks).

And this last one is a TortoiseSVN-specific page on how to import stuff in a repository (not directly related to svn:externals).

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