Re: Checkout filtering wanted

Taylor, Richard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was searching for information about checkout filtering can found this
> posting.
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-09/0384.shtml
>
> The proposal to have filtering based on properties is exactly what we need.
> checkout --filter 'platform=WinPc'
>
> We use SVN to store binary data accross a number of platforms. Atm everybody
> has to check out all the data which is many 10's of gigabytes. The ability
> to checkout just the generic data + target platform data would make a big
> different to update and commit speeds which atm are really quite poor.

You can accomplish this through careful arrangement of your data tree.
Let's say you have a tree of stuff called 'common', and then your
"platform-specific" stuff ('win32', 'macosx', 'linux'). You can arrange
your tree like so:

   /trunk
      /src
         /common # has the common bits
         /win32 # empty directory
         /linux # empty directory
         /macosx # empty directory
      /platforms
         /win32 # has the win32 bits
         /linux # has the linux bits
         /macosx # has the macosx bits

Now, your checkout instructions for folks on plaform FOO are:

   svn checkout http://.../trunk/src my-working-copy
   svn switch my-working-copy/FOO http://.../trunk/platforms/FOO

The result is a working copy that has the common stuff, the
platform-specific stuff, plus empty directories for all the platforms that
this user doesn't care about.

(We do this at CollabNet, not for platform-specific needs, but based on
whether or not a user wants to build one of our 130+ components from source
or just grab the latest "prebuilt" package for that component.)

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net>
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