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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion
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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion

by Mike Mason
November 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
150 pages
2h 55m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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44Using Externals

Within an organization, it’s quite likely that development teams will want to share assets between projects. It might be a goal for projects to use a common set of third-party components or for certain projects to share parts of their source code for other projects to use. Subversion’s externals provide an easy way to include portions of a repository within a project.

Externals are controlled through the svn:externals property, which can be set on any directory within a repository. When a Subversion client sees the external, it attempts to contact the specified Subversion repository and check out a portion of that repository into the working copy. An external can refer to a directory or a single file that you want to include ...

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