Re: Preferred doc checkouts

2009/7/30 Greg Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net>: > Hannes Magnusson wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:03, KSChan<mr.kschan@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Using svn:externals magic however is the simplest approach: >>>> $ svn checkout >>>> http://svn.php.net/viewvc/phpdoc/modules/doc-all/ >>> If using externals, can svn commit using 1 operation only as "svn ci >>> doc-all/en/some_file doc-all/fr/just_another_file ...." ? >> >> I honestly do not know :) >> Please try :) > > No, and what is worse svn does not fail, it simply ignores any changes > in svn:externals. > > Unless you only ever plan to change docs in a single translation, I > don't recommend using the svn:externals modules.  However, for those > people who are exclusively documenting in 1 language, and never touch > the source code they're documenting it is a great system. > > For everyone else, use a sparse checkout.  I put in a small amount of > effort last week to make phd work, and as long as you aren't adding in > images, it works fine (phd needs a small change to allow it to find > images in a sparse checkout, which I have not and will not investigate > since I don't care about images :). > > Greg > My experience is different. I'm using TortoiseSVN on Windows XP SP3. I recently made a change to doc-en involving both doc-base and en - see http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=286553 Richard. -- ----- 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