Re: Preferred doc checkouts

Richard Quadling wrote: > 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 > Hi, Great - so that means users of TortoiseSVN don't have this issue. The command-line subversion client is the only deficiency if you're using svn:externals. Good to know. Greg