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

At 1:03 PM -0400 8/11/03, Matt Blais wrote:
>It would be useful to be able to exclude specific entries or patterns
>from 'checkout' and 'add'.

Yes, I can see significant value in this as well (e.g., in a bridge
script I maintain). And it's a fairly common request in the world at
large (witness: ClearCase recently added support for this, by the
dodge that "update" doesn't update a file if unexists ... rather a
pain, that approach, since healing an accidental deletion requires
special efforts ... think they landed on the wrong side of "common
things should be simple, uncommon things should be possible" ... but
anyway, this shows the demand).

Hmmm ... this would depend upon the support for "defined but missing"
files we've tossed around, wouldn't it? E.g., if you "svn up -r1
somefile," then somefile disappears (because it didn't exist in r1),
but you can't get it back (because there's some turmoil over finding
it to say "give it back" about). I think the status of that was: at
first we thought it was the same as the existing idea of "deleted,"
but it really isn't. Maybe this RFE has at least given us a name for
the new state -- "Excluded".

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