On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:24:23 +0530, 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.
hmmm..... I think that there shouldnt be an entry for a file that doesnt
exist in the current wc. designing a new UI? you mean adding of a new
option/suboptions, right? If so, I need some time to get it done... am
looking at the feasibility of getting this out at the code level with
minimal changes...
btw, is there any record of his work that I could refer to? (apart from
the mailing list/issue tracker)
>
> The reason I bring this up is because a single-file checkout is just a
> sub-case of this larger feature.
I agree.... but not something dependant on the larger issue to get
fixed... in fact, fixing this might pave the way to solve the 'svn co -N'
simpler... dont you think so?
> 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.
Yes, I want to work on this... I earlier thought the change would be
localized to libsvn_wc.... looking at the code, am now thinking - it
wouldnt be...
> The trick is
> to resurrect Ben's notes and design and patch-in-progress, and
> continue the work...
yep.... could you help me out with this pl.
Thanks and Regards,
Madan.
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Received on Thu Apr 27 11:21:48 2006