Andy Levy wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Steve Kelem <skelem_at_elementcxi.com> wrote:
>> I have a question about the best practice for checking out part of a
>> repository.
>>
>> We have a repository that has a structure like:
>>
>> trunk/
>> hw/
>> sw/
>> apps/
>> training/
>>
>> Each of the sub-directories is quite large and taking up lots of space when
>> each of our engineers checks out the entire trunk.
>>
>> The right way to check out (AFIK) would be to check out only the top-level
>> directory that's needed. (Check-out is quite slow, on the order of a few
>> hours!) That's fine for checking out a new sandbox, starting from scratch.
>> What about someone who has the whole trunk checked out, but realizes (for
>> example, due to a company mandate) that one or more directories are not
>> needed in his sandbox?
>>
>> One possibility is to delete the entire local sandbox and then check out
>> only the directories that are needed. That's safe, but costly in check-out
>> time and can lose any local work-in-progress.
>
> Unless you save the work in progress.
>
>> But what if a lot of work is in progress in, e.g., the hw directory, but a
>> local copy of the sw directory is not needed? Is there an easy way to tell
>> subversion that I don't need a copy of sw, or apps, or training, but that I
>> want to keep all my local work in the hw directory?
>
> Copy or move sw using your file manager of choice (shell prompt,
> Windows Explorer, Nautalis, Finder, what have you) to another
> location, then delete what you don't want. The great thing about
> Suvbersion WCs is that (barring symlinks) each directory can be its
> own independent working copy just by copying it to a new place.
That is true for 1.5 and older, but may not be true in the future svn releases.
Blair
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Received on 2008-05-21 20:20:46 CEST