svn:externals

[Nicholas Allen]

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Hi Alexander,

My understanding is that this will be possible using Bazaar when nested
branches are supported. It's a commonly requested feature and I really
hope nested branches will be implemented soon but I am unaware of any
official timescale when this will be implemented.

There is another way to achieve what you want using a program called
"Config Manager" (http://bazaar-vcs.org/ConfigManager). I believe this
can solve your problems. Unfortunately, the documentation is extremely
sparse and the wiki offers nothing useful whatsoever. I was unable to
get this to work (otherwise I would have updated the wiki to contain
something actually useful) but perhaps you will have better luck. If you
manage to get it to work I (and I'm sure many others) would be
interested in hearing how....

Cheers,

Nick

Alexander Iljin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>   I've got a question about the svn:externals support. Is it
>   supported or are there any movements being made in that direction?
>   If it is not supported, then what can I do to emulate it in Bazaar?
> 
>   I've got several projects, all of which depend on a platform
>   library. Naturally, all the projects and the library are in a their
>   own separate repositories. I need to be able to specify exactly
>   which revision of the library is to be used to build each
>   application. With svn:externals I can checkout a WC of the
>   application source, and it will be automatically populated with the
>   appropriate version of the library. Is it possible to do so with
>   Bazaar? 
> 
>   Please, don't get me wrong, I'm not asking for "svn:externals"
>   support in "bzr-svn", I'm ready to  switch to Bazaar completely if I
>   can achieve a satisfactory level of automation for this task, just
>   give me a hint. Basically I'd like to checkout a folder with
>   (ignored?) subfolders from different repos.
> 
>   PS: I use GNU Make to build the apps, so I'm ready to employ a
>   script to create the necessary layout and/or checkout the library.
>   
> ---=====---
>  Alexander
> 
> 
> 

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