[svnbook commit] r2706 - trunk/src/en/book
cmpilato
noreply at red-bean.com
Sun Feb 25 21:26:29 CST 2007
Author: cmpilato
Date: Sun Feb 25 21:26:28 2007
New Revision: 2706
Modified:
trunk/src/en/book/ch-advanced-topics.xml
Log:
* src/en/book/ch-advanced-topics.xml
Add a useful note about externals, partially suggested by Eric Hanchrow
<offby1 at blarg.net>.
Modified: trunk/src/en/book/ch-advanced-topics.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/src/en/book/ch-advanced-topics.xml (original)
+++ trunk/src/en/book/ch-advanced-topics.xml Sun Feb 25 21:26:28 2007
@@ -2373,6 +2373,16 @@
bother—Subversion will, upon checkout of the original
working copy, also checkout the external working copies.</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>The relative target subdirectories of externals
+ definitions needn't already exist on your or other users'
+ systems—Subversion will create them when it checks out
+ the external working copy. In fact, you should
+ <emphasis>not</emphasis> try to use externals definitions to
+ populate directories that are already under version
+ control.</para>
+ </note>
+
<para>Note the previous externals definition example. When
someone checks out a working copy of the
<filename>calc</filename> directory, Subversion also continues
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