Re: FAQ: svn advocacy / advice

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:06:46PM +0000, Molle Bestefich wrote:
> Pedro Lamarão wrote:
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/ ;-)
>
> 404 not found.
> Did you mean svn:// ?
>

Yes, he meant svn://.

> (Odd repository. What's '/empty-dir' ?)
>

A kludge to work around our broken handling of incomplete working copies
(as seen, for example, in non-recursive checkouts).

The user switches the directories in their wc that they're not interested
in to the empty-dir directory. This effectively ignores them (and it's
'sticky'), but doesn't require the user to carry around a bunch of local
'svn:ignore' propsets that they're not planning to commit.

Regards,
Malcolm

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Received on Tue Nov 8 17:42:08 2005