Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm> writes:
> I have a repository with many branches, and I would like to check out
> the "root" of the repository so that I can make some structural
> changes. What I definitely don't want to do is check out the whole
> repository.
>
> Having gone through the --help and the manual, svn update -N should in
> theory be what I need to update all files in a particular directory -
> but not recurse into subdirectories.
Frankly, the -N support is a bit shaky.
You should rather do this via URL operations. If you want to get it
all done in one commit, see Philip Martin's MUCC client, checked into
the Subversion tree at:
contrib/client-side/mucc.c
contrib/client-side/mucc-test.sh
"MUCC" stands for "Multiple URL Command Client".
-Karl
> In this case however, svn update -N is doing nothing at all. No files
> appear in the current directory when I know there are files in that
> directory in the repository.
>
> [root@fosvn01 fo]# ls -al
> total 6
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Apr 22 12:27 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Apr 22 12:27 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Apr 22 12:27 .svn
> [root@fosvn01 fo]# svn update -N
> At revision 536.
> [root@fosvn01 fo]# ls -al
> total 6
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Apr 22 12:27 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Apr 22 12:27 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Apr 22 12:30 .svn
>
> Is this a known bug?
>
> I am using subversion v1.1.3.
>
> Regards,
> Graham
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Received on Fri Apr 22 17:10:37 2005