How to get started with SVN externals?

Q 69. How to get started with SVN externals?

Sometimes it is useful to construct a working copy that is made out of a number of different checkouts. For example, you may want different files or subdirectories to come from different locations in a repository, or perhaps from different repositories altogether. If you want every user to have the same layout, you can define the svn:externals properties to pull in the specified resource at the locations where they are needed.

1.external folders

2.external files

3.creating externals via drag and drop

Example:

I want to set a simple svn:externals property in one of my project's directories, lets say 'plugins' (talking about WordPress here). The outcome would be a directory called 'akismet' within 'plugins' that points to a remote svn url.

svn propset svn:externals 'akismet http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/akismet/trunk' .

property 'svn:externals' set on '.'

Note that dot at the end of the command and the quotes around the directory name and url.

Now commit via

svn commit

and then

svn up

Fetching external item into 'akismet'

A    akismet/akismet.gif

A    akismet/akismet.php

A    akismet/readme.txt

Updated external to revision 127962.

Updated to revision 16.