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Re: Sparse branches

From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:48:51 -0600

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:30 AM, James French
<James.French_at_naturalmotion.com> wrote:
>
> I understand sparse checkouts but is there a recommended way of doing
> ‘sparse branches’? Often projects need to be farmed out to a release branch
> and then deleted from the main trunk (to save space). It is then necessary
> to do the inverse on the new branch ie delete all the projects that are not
> necessary on the branch (obviously its not necessary but its nicer for
> performance and disk space).
>

Maybe you should move the trunk/branches/tags under each project
instead of combining things under the same trunk. If you need to pull
components from several projects back together you can always do it
with externals.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
Received on 2011-11-22 19:49:25 CET

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