Question

I’m currently working on a very small open source project for Maemo 5. (Namely Sticky Notes.)
I would like to incorporate some stuff from the Hildon Extras project.

It seems that they have no binary packages, just an SVN repository, and the developers who use it just copy-paste the sources from Hildon-Extras to their own repository.

While I don’t have any problem with that, the only issue with this method is versioning. If I just copy-paste their source files, there is no way I could know when they update them. (Unless I regularly check it manually, of course.)

So, the question is this: is there a way for me to make a folder in my SVN repository point to the source folder in their repository, so that it would automatically update their stuff for me?

Thanks in advance for your help!

EDIT:

Mwilson’s recommendation to use svn externals just did the trick! Thank you!
The TortoiseSVN page about externals also helped me a lot.

Answer 1

You could use an externals definition.