Re: Dropping Subversion

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 01:50:41AM +0200, Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> ... and spend some nice time removing unnecessarily checked out files

How long does it take to delete a directory and its contents? You
wouldn't even have to recheck the files out:

svn co https://svn/project

oops

mv project/trunk project-trunk
rm -rf project
mv project-trunk project

> How do you check out next fresh working copy?

svn co https://svn/project/trunk project

>Do you check out each module separately?

Yes.

> What about updating?

svn up

You do realize you can nest a working copy within another working copy?
You'll have to run your updates separately but if they're separte
projects isn't that what you want anyway?

If you want to switch to a different branch or tag, you can use svn
switch.

It's all a heck of a lot easier than you make it out to be.

> Maybe. But seems to me, it would be more natural NOT to checkout all the
> tags by default and give -I_know_what_I_am_doing switch for those rare
> cases where someone really wants to do that.

subversion doesn't know what a tag is. How you use a path in your repo
is what matters. In order to get what you want here would force us to
force everyone into a set of repository layouts or make the design more
complex for something that frankly isn't really much of a problem.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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