Have a SVN checkout location connected to Codeplex and propagate updates to another develpment location connected to another SVN repository

Question

I would like to checkout a read only SVN projects (eg from Codeplex) to a folder on my local disk, open the solution (let's say I am getting Dotnetnuke and open it's solution, add some projects to the solution and possibly changing some files, previously making them writable. I want to regularly update the changes coming from Codeplex and do code mergers to preserver my changes).

However I would like to copy all the files in this checkout location to another "developer" location where I would play extensively with the source code and have my local SVN repository to preserve history and allow other developers to do check ins/outs. I should be able to use TortoiseSVN from Windows explorer or Visual Studio SVN Add-on to do check ins/outs.

So check outs from Codeplex to the first location would be an intermediate location from which I would like to update a development area in another location that will be connected to Read/Write SVN repository on my local machine.

So how to make updates/synchronizations between first and second location (direction is from first to second location). Can I use Tortoise SVN to move changes from first location to second (after SVN update from Codeplex).

Since I am using GIT and Mercurial clients how would I propagate changes to my Development SVN location. I would prefer solution that would work across source version software. Tx, Rad

Answer 1

You can use SVN switch to switch between repositories, although that could be tricky thing to do...

Wouldn't adding the Codeplex' repository as an external to your R/W repository do the thing? See: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch07s03.html