Re: Preferred doc checkouts

2009/7/30 Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:36, KSChan<mr.kschan@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Philip Olson <philip@roshambo.org> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Here's a draft of what our checkout instructions might look like. The idea >>> is to consolidate where we talk about checking out the docs, then link >>> there. Please have a look and improve: >>> >>>  http://wiki.php.net/doc/scratchpad/howto/checkout >> >> If i'm going to checkout all language in doc-editor, am i going to do the >> following? >> >> svn co http://svn.php.net/repository --depth empty phpdoc >> >> svn co http://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/fr/trunk >> --depth infinity >> phpdoc/fr >> svn co http://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/jp/trunk >> --depth infinity >> phpdoc/jp >> >> svn co http://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk >> --depth infinity >> phpdoc/en > > If you don't mind the "trunk/" in the dir names you could: > $ svn co http://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc --depth > immediates > $ cd phpdoc/ > $ svn up * --set-depth immediates > $ svn up */trunk --set-depth infinity > > Using svn:externals magic however is the simplest approach: > $ svn checkout > http://svn.php.net/viewvc/phpdoc/modules/doc-all/ > > That'll create a directory structure you tried to make above. > > -Hannes > Is there a technical reason why the svn:externals is not the preferred way? Having to have scripts deal with ... phpdoc/doc-base/trunk phpdoc/en/trunk vs phpdoc/doc-base phpdoc/en vs phpdoc/doc-base/trunk phpdoc/en vs phpdoc/doc-base phpdoc/en/trunk OK, the last 2 are probably note going to happen but you see the issue. -- ----- Richard Quadling Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" ZOPA : http://uk.zopa.com/member/RQuadling