And now a counter-proposal...
Ben Reser (before he vanished) spent a lot of time designing and
coding a solution to issue #695 -- to allow true 'nonrecursive'
checkouts.
The general solution he was working on was a way for users to specify
that they "wanted" or "didn't want" certain files and dirs. We
currently have a .svn/entries attribute which means, "I want this
thing, but the server says I'm not authorized to have it.". But Ben
was working on a flag which means "I don't want this, don't give it to
me." It was a change to both client and server logic, and also
involved designing a new UI to trigger this feature.
The reason I bring this up is because a single-file checkout is just a
sub-case of this larger feature. The task is currently listed as
something for a Summer of Code student to work on (on our tasks page:
http://subversion.tigris.org/project_tasks.html), but if Madan wants
to start working on it earlier, that would be neat too. The trick is
to resurrect Ben's notes and design and patch-in-progress, and
continue the work...
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Received on Wed Apr 26 14:54:55 2006