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RE: subversion

From: Robert Cronk <rcronk_at_altiris.com>
Date: 2005-08-31 17:59:35 CEST

> Flex wrote:
> > This way the folder will be checked out along with the "single file"
in
> > question. Yeah, it'll not be versioned, but since this issue mostly
> > involves using external files (headers files, common files, etc). It
may
> > solve most of the problems?
>
> From: David Anderson [mailto:david.anderson@calixo.net]
> You're saying you don't actually need version control on the single
file
> you want to check out? That is, you're not going to edit and commit
it,
> just use the content and update it every now and then?
>
> In that case, you can just 'svn cat http://server/repos/file > file'.
> You lose versionning on the file, but if you don't need to commit or
> actually use it as a working copy, that's all you need.

As a workaround until they add the feature, would it be possible to
place the file that you need into a subdirectory by itself in the
repository? Then you could just check it out and have versioning on it,
etc. Just a thought.

Robert

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