[wp-hackers] OT: Checkout SVN into another?

[Alex Hempton-Smith]

W00t! Cheers DD32, I didn't even think to delete the .svn folder - works
like a charm now.
Many thanks all for your replies and suggestions!

-- Alex


On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 1:48 AM, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:

> cant you just delete mu-plugins/.svn/ and then check out into .svn?
>
> You'll loose the ability to keep any default plugins (which i dont
> think there are any?) up to date via SVN..
>
> SVN is designed to be able to handle customisations like that.
>
> The other option (like mentioned), is to delete the mu-plugins folder,
> and then create a svn:externals item for mu-plugins on the root of the
> svn co, SVN will handle that nicely, i'm not sure how to add a
> Svn:external via cli tools though.
>
> 2009/2/15 Alex Hempton-Smith <hempsworth at googlemail.com>:
> > Thanks, just tried it in Putty and I can add the directories, but as
> > mentioned it doesn't allow the inclusion of individual files and that's
> what
> > I need. :S
> > Hmm...
> >
> > The directory is quite important because the BuddyPress plugins need to
> be
> > in the mu-plugins directory.
> >
> > If there isn't a more elegant solution I might just have to write a bash
> > script to delete the contents of the mu-plugins folder, checkout the
> > BuddyPress repo into a completely different directory and then move the
> > files into the mu-plugins directory. It'll be annoying if I want to have
> > other stuff in the mu-plugins folder though...
> >
> > -- Alex
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Matt <speedboxer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Alex Hempton-Smith
> >> <hempsworth at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> > Thanks Mike, maybe I'm not reading the URL you showed me right (I'm
> >> sleepy
> >> > :P), but how do I define these externals when I'm checking out a
> >> repository?
> >> > I know you can define externals if you actually own the repo
> (WordPress
> >> does
> >> > this for the Akismet plugin), but when I don't own it and just
> checking
> >> out?
> >>
> >> You can make and use an SVN external without it being committed.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Matt (http://mattsblog.ca/)
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