How do I create a project reference to a specific revision of another project under SVN source control?

I have two projects under SVN source control. I would like to reference a specific version of one project from another. How can I do this in MATLAB?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This can be done by using SVN externals:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/simulink/ug/set-up-svn-source-control.html#bu62oes-1

This will allow you to create a subfolder in your current directory that contains a reference to another SVN repository. You may also choose the specific revision when creating the SVN external.

After creating this subfolder, you can create a project reference to the project inside the created sublfolder.

Alternatively, you may check out the specific revision of the project to-be-referenced, then create a project reference to the checked out copy.

[Jan Kappen]

SVN and GIT are usually not recommended to be used as dependency management tools, e.g. see here https://www.atlassian.com/git/articles/git-and-project-dependencies

This is a pretty awful workaround, sorry.

Is there any dependency management built in into Matlab? If not I really wonder how big projects are handled.