Re: [PHP-DOC] Preferred doc checkouts

Richard Quadling wrote:
> 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.  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