[PD] [PD-dev] repository layout: tags

[David Plans Casal]

On 13 Sep 2007, at 16:08, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

>> 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.
>>
>
> 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.

I think it's robust enough, but in practice (in _my_ practice), it  
can get hard to keep track of them, and I end up doing a lot of svnlook

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