Mark Phippard wrote:
>Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote on 11/07/2004 03:42:04 PM:
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>>Sometimes people like to keep an up-to-date checkout of their
>>repository around for reference purposes. Such a checkout is never
>>modified and never has mixed revs. It also isn't precious; if it gets
>>corrupted due to an accidental modification or interrupted operation,
>>it can be tossed out and recreated at the expense of some time.
>>
>>It might be nice if people could do this without paying the fairly
>>heavy space and time penalty associated with working copy
>>administrative files. My idea is to make "svn export -r X:Y" update a
>>presumed existing export at rX to match rY. It would be up to the
>>user to keep track of the rev the tree is currently at.
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>I think this could be very useful. I know a lot of people have asked for
>a "shadow directory" feature as exists in VSS and PVCS. This gets a lot
>closer, while adding some flexibility. I could envision people that are
>using Subversion to manage a web site using this feature to manage the
>content of the web site.
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That's what I would use it for, certainly. I maintain working copies
instead, for now.
>Why did you make the comment about the output not being "precious"? Do
>you view any aspect of this command as perhaps being unreliable? I guess
>it certainly is relying on the user to feed in the correct inputs to the
>command to get the right output, but assuming that is taken care of, I
>would imagine the results of running this command would be as reliable as
>any other.
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There's no way to determine if an exported tree had been modified. If it
had, the only way to revert the changes would be to blow the tree away
and reexport it.
>I assume that Y could be HEAD or perhaps even omitted to represent HEAD?
>If using a value of HEAD, would the command output the value of Y in a way
>that it could be captured and stashed away for the next run?
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If you "svn export -rHEAD" right now, the funal line in the output is,
e.g., "Exported revision 254". I'd expect the new functionality to add a
similar line, perhaps containing both revision numbers. Parse that out,
and you're set.
-- Brane
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Received on Mon Nov 8 15:24:32 2004