[LLVMdev] SVN Repository Layout.

[Chris Lattner]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Please read this:  http://llvm.org/SVNLayout.html at your earliest
>> convenience. If there is any confusion remaining, please let me know and
>> I'll update this page (or you can do it yourself).
>
> Why use makefiles instead of svn:externals? Running make inside a *checkout* to get
> *another checkout* is backward and difficult to integrate into build and test systems
> since you can't checkout a fixed rev easily because the makefile gets in the way.

Please see the llvmdev archives, this was discussed a few days ago.

-Chris

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