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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Subversion and incomplete checkouts
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2007-02-21 17:34:26
Message-ID: erhvr3$lj$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Dirk Stoecker wrote:
> CVS had the nice possibility to have partial working copies and 
> nevertheless handle them all with one call.
> 
> E.G. I checked out the parts I need and ignore some directories. Now I go 
> down the tree and do the same until I have all I want. When I now do a cvs 
> update in the base directory all the files are updated, but no new 
> directories are created (als long as I do not use -d :-)
> 
> svn has a checkout option and update option -N doing the first part of 
> CVS, but when I do an svn up in the basepart it regets all the missing 
> stuff and svn up -N does not handle the subdirectories.
> 
> Any solution for this, as the KDE repository really requires this, when 
> you want to handle translation files for multiple languages?

It's a known limitation in svn (and I don't like it either, so please 
feel free to complain to CollabNet :-)), however I have found that 'svn 
up -N ; svn up' seems to work. However, use with caution, as 
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=695 seems to imply 
that you can mess up your local copy this way.

IIRC there is also a blurb somewhere on tigris.org talking about doing 
this 'the right way', but I can't find it right now.

-- 
Matthew
"Do you do windows as well?"
"Only when I'm forced to deal with Microsoft..."
   -- from a story by Feech

 
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