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| Re: using linked folders [message #553866 is a reply to message #553735] |
Thu, 19 August 2010 09:00  |
 olly2 Mising name
Messages: 27
Registered: June 2010 |
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Hello Theron,
I had the same question some time ago. The answer was very disappointing to me: no, it is not possible.
If you think a little over it then it comes more and more clear that this scenario is not easy to implement.
Well, as you know, subversion uses a central library to manage your local copy of the project, the working copy (wc). When using subversive you also need to install a "connector" which is an fact exactly this library - ok, you can choose between two different library implementation, ether JavaHL that connects Java programms to the original SVN library (which is implemented in C) or a pure Java implementation of that library named SvnKIT. In the end all SVN activities from Eclipse are passed to one of these libraries.
Now, as you now SVNs wc has the limitation that it is not "distributed", there is allways a directory where the wc starts (the first one including a .svn subdirectory).
Eclipse is more flexible in this than subversion. It can link folders to your project, but subversion cannot. Subversion has its own concept to link other project in, please refer to the svn:externals property here:http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html
I think there was a discussion somewhere of an eclipse file system to overcome this, but I do not remember where I found this.
In the end it is like this: Subversion itselfe, namely the wc library, does not support this kind of link as eclipse does. Because of this you must use the svn link concept. It is not a problem of subverive (or subclipse).
Hopefuly this helps you a little bit.
Best regards,
Olaf
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