Sharing Files in SVN

Question

I am in the process of moving from VSS to SVN and I\'m not sure how to share files in SVN.

Basically we have the following structure in VSS

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Answer 1

We had the same problem. The simple answer is that you can't share files in SVN - in the end we had to restructure our directories and use batch files.

e.g. for source code files that were shared, we moved them to an Include folder, and have all the projects reference that folder.

For binary files that need to be copied to more than one location we store them just once in SVN, and then use batch files to copy them across to the target locations on each developers machine (or also on the build machine).