Using Subversion's "include" functionality– the svn:externals property

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In this case we're using svn externals to have a module in two places in a repository, but of course it works just as well for a truly external repository.

We are in our repository's directory for a site we are developing (in this case we happened to do this from where it's checked out on the server, but we could do the same from a local checkout). We want to include agaric's soon-to-be-famous utility function module, cleverly named agaric, in the site's modules directory.

cd /var/www/livingcon_test/sites/livingconversations.com/
sudo svn propedit svn:externals .

Look up the path to the agaric repository and put this line in the text editor provided...

modules/agaric https://12.345.67.890/srv/svn/agaric/agaric-modules/agaric

Set new value for property 'svn:externals' on '.'

sudo svn commit -m "external agaric"
Sending        .

Committed revision 4522.
ben@server:/var/www/livingcon_test/sites/livingconversations.com$ sudo svn update

Fetching external item into 'modules/agaric'
A    modules/agaric/agaric.info
A    modules/agaric/agaric.module
Updated external to revision 4522.

Updated to revision 4522.

Enjoying things that just work. It's the Agaric way.

Reference:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch07s03.html

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