It was suggested on users@ a day ago and the thread concluded with
filing the request in the tracker, plus a pointer by stsp to a tool
that helps do that today.
San Martino wrote on Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:47:12 +0100:
> Hello,
>
> first of all, thanks for the good job.
>
> We would like to convert our BIG repository to subversion.
> Actually the repository is organized in a way that a single directory
> might contain thousands of files and many Gb of data.
> Having to check-out one directory for just picking one file is not a
> scalable solution for our production environment.
> We would like to be able to checkout single files with the chance to
> also checkout the directories included in the path to the single file.
> For example, a check-out of /path/to/my/file.txt would also create
> /path, /to and /my.
> I know it's possible to obtain the same result with "checkout --depth
> empty" options as many times as dirs and a final "update" of the
> single file.
> But it's boring to do this in every possible case.
>
> thanks.
Received on 2010-11-11 13:10:57 CET