On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 4:27 PM Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I keep a set of utilities in svn so they can be easily exported to a > process > using the utilities and files. > > Now I have the following problem: > > There are a set of tagged versions of a utility residing in svn as > utilities/utilityname/tags/ > |/rev1 > |/rev2 > |/rev3 > |..etc > > I would like to make utilityname/trunk point to a specific tag (which I > will > change as time goes on) such that if an export is made as follows it will > always > provide the lastest version of the utility: > > svn export https://mydomain/svn/utilities/utilityname/trunk utilityname > > Then if a new version of a utility emerges then an import to a new tag > name can > be made of the new utility with files and then repoint trunk to that tag. > > Is this possible? > > The export is being done in a set of scripts used in several places and I > want > to make sure the latest version is used while also keeping the old versions > available for special cases. And this without having to find all of these > usage > spots. > > And if one needs an earlier revision in a specific case one can use that > specific tagname instead. > > How can this be done, if possible? > > -- > Bo Berglund > Developer in Sweden > > One idea is to use svn:externals. I am guessing there are many utilities and each one has its own tags. You can create one directory with the svn:externals property. This is the directory users will checkout. The 'svn:externals' property would contain a list of all the latest tags of the various utilities. When you checkout that directory, SVN will automatically checkout the directories listed in its svn:externals property as subdirectories. When a utility is updated and a new tag is created for it, you would update the svn:externals property to get that latest tag. One of the nice things about svn:externals is that you can use them to get things from other parts of the same repository, or from other SVN repositories on the same server, or from other SVN repositories on different servers. Documentation for svn:externals: https://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.html Hope this helps... Nathan
