On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Tim Shadel wrote:
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> So it seems important to have a way to say "I don't want this
> in my working copy anymore. Please don't bring it back
> unless I ask for it." Since that can only be done
> by manipulating the .svn\entries file, it has to be a
> features of svn, and not simply a combination of
> operating system features and "svn st".
As you mention in the next paragraph, this can also be handled by
not checking some sub-directories out in the first place.
> I've been using 'svn' since 0.18, so it took me quite
> a while to figure out why this worked in CVS. It is the
> interplay between two commands: 'cvs release -d' nukes
> the directory, and 'cvs update' **unlike svn update**
> will **NOT** bring down missing directories, so you can
> remain isolated until you run 'cvs update -dP' which
> is **much more like svn**. Does that ring any bells?
> So the old 'cvs release -d' CAN be recreated from
> operating system commands, but the svn version cannot.
> Kind of a time warp to recall those details. :-)
How about using a combination of 'svn co -N URI', 'svn ls URI',
and 'svn co' of desired sub-directories found by 'svn ls'?
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Received on Fri Sep 23 02:11:46 2005