# Svn:externals, capistrano and extensions **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [January 31, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-externals-capistrano-and-extensions/84047 "2007-01-31T19:50:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenjohnson)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-externals-capistrano-and-extensions/84047/1 "2007-01-31T19:50:55Z")
Before I go on the long search in my svn book does anyone have any insight into how to deploy Radiant (mental) as an svn:externals blended with a few extensions in my own repository? The goal is simply to not have to strip Radiant of it’s own version control (the ol’ “find . -type d -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} ;”) as I do now, but to leave it in it’s own world while injecting my own version controlled extensions… All accessible as one checkout for my capistrano recipe. Is this something I gonna be able to accomplish or should I give-up before trying? Anybody? Thanks, Loren J. [www.fn-group.com](http://www.fn-group.com) ---
**Author:** ![lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenjohnson)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-externals-capistrano-and-extensions/84047/2 "2007-01-31T19:57:56Z")
Loren J. wrote: > Is this something I gonna be able to accomplish or should I give-up > before trying? I’m working on getting this to work before the next release: % radiant /path/to/your/application % rake radiant:freeze:edge This will create a skeletal Radiant application and allow you to run on “edge” with Radiant in the vendor directory. It’s only partially implemented right now. We are hoping to release Saturday night. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenjohnson)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-externals-capistrano-and-extensions/84047/3 "2007-01-31T19:57:56Z")
Looks like [http://radiantcms.org/blog/2007/01/23/how-to-getting-mental/](http://radiantcms.org/blog/2007/01/23/how-to-getting-mental/) answers my question. Thanks once again to Sean for this! Loren ---
**Author:** ![lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenjohnson)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-externals-capistrano-and-extensions/84047/4 "2007-01-31T19:59:57Z")
John W. Long wrote: > It’s only partially implemented right now. We are hoping to release > Saturday night. That will be 0.6.0 RC1. – John ---
**Author:** ![lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenjohnson)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-externals-capistrano-and-extensions/84047/5 "2007-02-03T15:28:39Z")
Loren, You might want to check out svk: > **[Best Practical Solutions: The open-source ticketing system](https://bestpractical.com/)** > > open source ticketing software I’ve been looking at it for the same/similar purposes as you describe. Finding good docs is hard tho. After a while I found this note which can be tailored to fit radiant pretty easily: [http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2005-September/](http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2005-September/) 042679.html What I was looking for was a way to hack on my own (or clients) copy of Radiant, but bring the latest changes in as needed. It seems to work pretty well, you still have to be careful with the merges, but you don’t have to clear the svn info like you described. I was able to install svk with macports (if you are on a Mac). Feel free to email me if you need more details, Cheers, Adam ---
**Author:** ![lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenjohnson)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-externals-capistrano-and-extensions/84047/6 "2007-02-05T03:34:42Z")
> > Loren, > > You might want to check out svk: > > [Best Practical Solutions: The open-source ticketing system](http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/HomePage) > > I’ve found that SVK is the way to go as well. This is just a vouching > type email 😉 p.s: other folks using SVK should also check out Piston as an excellent workaround for svn:externals. It is also a good replacement for externals generally, since it speeds up all svn commands and doesn’t lock you into the bleeding edge for projects without tags. [http://piston.rubyforge.org/usage.html](http://piston.rubyforge.org/usage.html) -jmw ---
**Author:** ![lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lorenjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lorenjohnson)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/svn-externals-capistrano-and-extensions/84047/7 "2007-02-04T05:19:49Z")
On Feb 3, 2007, at 9:26 AM, Adam S. wrote: > Loren, > You might want to check out svk: > [Best Practical Solutions: The open-source ticketing system](http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/HomePage) I’ve found that SVK is the way to go as well. This is just a vouching type email 😉 adam williams