Ugh, what a mess. The whole non-recursive checkout feature ('co -N')
is half-implemented, half-baked, full of bugs, and makes users expect
reasonable things like Andrew describes below. I'd really like to
remove this feature altogether, and defer it post-1.0. :-(
Andrew Sinclair <subversion@asinclair.com> writes:
> Suppose you have a repository with a lot of projects in it:
>
> repos/
> trunk/
> projA/
> projB/
> projC/
> ...
> branches/
> projA
> ...
>
> Now suppose you only want to check out projA files but you want to a
> local copy of the trunk and branches. You can start by downloading the
> repos directory nonrecursively
>
> # svn co -N http://svn.foo.com/repos wc
>
> Then checkout the trunk files
>
> # cd wc
> # svn co http://svn.foo.com/repos/trunk/projA trunk/projA
> # svn co http://svn.foo.com/repos/branches/projA branches/projA
> # svn co http://svn.foo.com/repos/tags/projA tags/projA
>
> Now you have a working copy file structure of
>
> wc/
> trunk/
> projA/
> branches/
> projA/
> tags
> projA/
> Which looks like the repository but it isn't. Say you want to
> generate an offshoot project from projA so you try and make a copy in
> trunk
>
> # cd trunk
> # svn copy projA projNew
> svn: Path is not a working copy directory
> svn: '' is not a working copy
>
> This doesn't work because trunk isn't recognized as a working copy
> since you didn't explicitly check it out. But since you were in the wc
> directory, which is logically the parent of 'trunk', svn should have
> recognized this and made trunk part of the working copy as well when
> you checked out trunk/projA. Instead what you have to do is:
>
> # svn co -N http://svn.foo.com/repos wc
> # cd wc
> # svn co -N http://svn.foo.com/repos/trunk
> # cd trunk
> # svn co http://svn.foo.com/repos/trunk/projA
> # cd ..
> # svn co -N http://svn.foo.com/repos/branches
> # cd branches
> # svn co http://svn.foo.com/repos/branches/projA
> # cd ..
> # svn co -N http://svn.foo.com/repos/tags
> # cd tags
> # svn co http://svn.foo.com/repos/tags/projA
>
> which is just plain annoying.
>
> Really, Subversion should keep track of incremental checkouts and
> allow you to add parts without having to do each part individually.
> Or alternatively, an option should be added to the checkout command
> that allows you to specify the root of the working
> directory. Something like:
>
> # svn co -from http://svn.foo.com/repos
> http://svn.foo.com/repos/trunk/projA wc
>
> which would then checkout projA and put it into a working copy with
> the full structure starting at repos, i.e.
>
> wc/
> trunk/
> projA/
>
> where all three directories are valid working copies.
>
> Is this a Good, Bad, or Stupid request?
>
> Andrew
>
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