<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 13, 2007, at 12:06 AM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">><BR>>> Does SVN handle this differently?<BR>><BR>> yes and now.<BR>> yes: you don't _have_ to create a tag and a branch whenever you <BR>> import code.<BR>> no: you can import code that is maintained elsewhere into a branch,<BR>> a tag, the trunk (or just any other directory)<BR>> yes: svn is able to handle references to external (svn!)<BR> > repositories (which imo is better than blindly importing anything<BR>> useful)<BR><BR>That sounds horrendous to me, then you are forced to track their<BR>changes. Could you imagine if we tracked portaudio like that with <BR>Pd? We'd spent half our dev time fixing breakage caused by portaudio<BR>changes. It's a very useful thing to keep code static until you are<BR>ready for change.</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </DIV><DIV>You can set a specific revision to reference, so that this does not happen.</DIV><DIV><BR class="webkit-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>A cool thing I've been doing recently with the externals feature is using them more like symlinks; so for portaudio you can put the revision you want to stay static in a central location ( e.g. /svnexternals/portaudio) and then set /that/ as the external directory. That way you still have a single copy, but it is replicated to everywhere it is needed.</DIV><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>How well does this really work in production? It's really pretty easy to import code into repositories and manage it there. The idea is cool, but I am not really up for beta testing svn features. There are plenty of Pd bugs to deal with :D. This import feature has been around for 10+ years in CVS at least.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>.hc</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Cheers</DIV><DIV>Luke</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> kill your television</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>