On 1/24/07, Michael Brouwer <mb.7766@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity have you looked at how svk solves this?
>
> With svk the -N option is sticky, meaning update won't grab files or folders
> that are missing, instead it marks them with a '!'. You have to svk revert
> -R to actually get a directory back. (or without the -R for files). This
> makes spare checkouts work quite well, and I believe svn could be made to
> work the same way without the need for as much new code as is currently in
> this branch.
Could you describe this in more detail? I'm okay with walking away from
the new code, if there's a simpler way to do this. (I admit, I wish someone
had brought it up when we posted the spec, back in September or October,
but that's the way it goes sometimes :-) .)
There's no mode in which you can have the missing directories as empty
subdirs, and then expand them, right? Oh, but you don't need that,
because you see them whenever you do 'svn st', they're prefixed with "!".
Hmmm. That's a bit scary -- it implies an error when there isn't one.
The user requested that things be this way, whereas "!" usually means
something is wrong. On the other hand, maybe that's an interface
detail that could be tweaked.
Can you bring a subdir back in -N mode itself, though?
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Received on Sat Feb 3 02:03:49 2007