[Subclipse-users] Hiding Unchanged Files Within a Branch

Hi,

I'm still somewhat new to SVN, so please let me know if I'm doing
anything crazy.

I'm currently working with a very large codebase (roughly a gig) and I
regularly need to make branches for feature requests and bug fixes. I
usually only need to change a half-dozen files, so I've gotten in the
bad habit of only branching the files I need to change. The problem is,
when I try to use Team->Merge to merge these changes back into the main
trunk, SVN says the two codebases are unrelated, presumably because my
branch is missing most of the trunk's files.

I know SVN branching/tagging is relatively cheap, but with a gig of code
even a cheap branch takes a long time to create and work with. Branched
files may not be duplicated in SVN, but checking out the branch
essentially duplicates all the files on my local file-system. Is there
any way to selectively checkout only the files from a branch that differ
from the trunk, or merge an incomplete branch?

Regards,

Chris
Received on 2008-02-20 15:43:52 CET