Re: [PHP-DOC] Preferred doc checkouts

2009/7/30 Greg Beaver <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hannes Magnusson wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:03, KSChan<mr.kschan@xxxxxxxxx> 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. ÂHowever, 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. ÂI 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.

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