On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:05:46PM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote: > I just finished reading the SVN manual. This was the 1.1 version, so I hope > there's nothing important in the newer versions. > > Somebody at one point asked how to have a subdirectory of the repository > that wouldn't be touched so they could have something entirely different > in it. I think "svn switch" was suggested, but I can't find that message. > I recall it being some URL like file:/dev/null, but when I read the manual, > I find that the operand of "svn switch" needs to be in the same repository > as the rest of the working directory, so I'm confused.
It was simpler than that: Dan created an empty directory in the GCC repository to switch to. Googling for "gcc svn switch" took me directly to the Wiki page, which covers this; it's under setup: svn switch svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/emptydir libada > Here's what I need to do and I welcome suggestions: one of the working > directories I have is the FSF GCC repository (from HEAD), but the > gcc/ada subdirectory is the AdaCore repository. For cvs, what I do in > gcc/CVS/Entries is delete the line for "ada" and then checkout the AdaCore > repository into there. What's the way to do this in svn? I think you would need to do something a bit more complicated for this, using svk. Among other things, this should let you combine multiple conceptual "repositories". But I'll defer this one to our experts. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC
