On 4/26/06, Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@red-bean.com> wrote:
> 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...
Personally, I agree, we already have a perfectly reasonable design for
this sort of feature, it seems far more productive to continue that
work than to start a new design from scratch.
-garrett
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Received on Wed Apr 26 19:27:47 2006