Subversion enhacement Req: "--exclude" option for checkout, update, add

It would be useful to be able to exclude specific entries or patterns
from 'checkout' and 'add'.

E.g., I want to checkout a dir that contains a "./bin" subdir, but I
want to exclude ./bin from the checkout.

Specifying a PATTERN to exclude recursively would also be useful. E.g.,
--exclude *.jpg;*.gif

How would this affect updates? Ideally subversion would remember what
--exclude options were used for a checkout, and automatically apply the
same exclusions to subsequent updates on the dir (i.e., exclude is
"sticky").

Also needed would be a new 'update' flag to "create all missing
entries", which would have the effect of causing subversion to "forget"
the excludes that were originally used to checkout the dir.

I'm sure there are a few more commands that would be impacted.

--Matt

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Received on Mon Aug 11 19:04:33 2003