Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
> There's a related problem, which we have now with CVS in the src
> repository, but would get worse if they were merged. CVS does not
> remember which module(s) you originally selected when you checked out
> a tree. Therefore, if you use the -d option, it checks out the entire
> repository the first time you try to update a working copy containing
> a subset of the tree. But if you don't use the -d option you don't
> get _any_ new subdirectories unless you specifically ask for them, and
> you may not know which they are.
>
> It would be nice if Subversion did this better.
I'm not sure it does (yet), except in that it versions directories,
but I don't think that exactly solves what you're talking about.
There have been various proposals for a Subversion module system,
along the lines of "union directories", or other indirection-based
systems that allow rule-based groupings. That would probably solve
the problem described above, but it will not be in 1.0.
On the other hand, Subversion will support symlinks / shortcuts, which
should alleviate the problem...
-K
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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:49 2006