Grabbing unversioned externals into svn check-out

Question

I hope this question can make sense. I use svn externals generally to grab versioned items from another svn check-in. This is not what I am after. We have many .dlls and many sources files from third party providers we do not want to check in to our svn.

So my question is, is there a way to automagically grab these files when we check out from svn? Preferably for the first time only? Is there a way of attached a script to execute on tortoise to grab unversioned files etc?

Answer 1

In case of TortoiseSVN you can write and use client-side hooks (which can perform any operations, unrelated directly to Subversion, repository and Working Copy)

Post-update hook may be good candidate