Alternative: acquiring iwant bootstrapper by using svn:externals

If your project uses svn as version control, a handy way of avoiding having to commit the iwant bootstrapper to the user's svn repository is to link it using svn:externals.

~ $ svnadmin create svn-repo

~ $ svn co "file://$(readlink -f svn-repo)" iwant-tutorial Checked out revision 0.

~ $ cd iwant-tutorial

Here we use a shell oneliner to define the svn:externals url. You may want to use the interactive svn pe command.

~/iwant-tutorial $ mkdir as-iwant-tutorial-developer

~/iwant-tutorial $ svn add as-iwant-tutorial-developer A as-iwant-tutorial-developer

~/iwant-tutorial $ echo '-r 905 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/iwant/code/trunk/essential/iwant-entry/as-some-developer/with with' | svn ps svn:externals --file - as-iwant-tutorial-developer property 'svn:externals' set on 'as-iwant-tutorial-developer'

~/iwant-tutorial $ svn commit -m 'external iwant bootstrapper' Adding as-iwant-tutorial-developer Committing transaction... Committed revision 1.

~/iwant-tutorial $ svn up Updating '.': Fetching external item into 'as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with': A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/ant A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/ant/iw A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/bash A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/bash/iwant A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/java A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/java/net A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/java/net/sf A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/java/org A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/java/org/fluentjava A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/java/org/fluentjava/iwant A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/java/org/fluentjava/iwant/entry A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/ant/iw/build.xml A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/bash/iwant/help.sh A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/bash/iwant/iwant.sh A as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/java/org/fluentjava/iwant/entry/Iwant.java Updated external to revision 905. At revision 1.

~/iwant-tutorial $ as-iwant-tutorial-developer/with/bash/iwant/help.sh I created /home/hacker/iwant-tutorial/as-iwant-tutorial-developer/i-have/conf/iwant-from Please edit and uncomment the properties in it and rerun me.