Re: [TSVN] Menu item "Checkout..."

On 8/21/05, Tobias Schäfer <tobiasschaefer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello Stefan,

I'm not the only one here able to answer questions ;)

> if you do a checkout into a folder and then try to checkout again into the
> same folder the menu item "Checkout..." is not shown.

If you want to create nested working copies, just create a new empty
folder and check out into that.

> I know this is rather uncommon but in the following scenario I would need it:
>
> - create "d:\tsvn"
> - checkout "http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn/trunk/" to
> d:\tsvn\trunk
> - since d:\tsvn does not contain a ".svn" directory the menu item
> "Checkout..." is shown - good!
> - checkout http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn/ and set the checkbox
> "Check out the top folder only"
> - This created the file d:\tsvn\ReadMe.html und creates the folder
> d:\tsvn\.svn - good!
> - Add a new file into http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn by using
> the Repo-Browser using "Add file...", for example aaaaaaa.txt
> - I would now like to checkout the top folder of
> http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn/ again to checkout aaaaaaa.txt
> but "Checkout..." is not available in the context menu of d:\tsvn - not so
> good :-(

You want to use "Update to revision" - in that dialog you can choose
"update only this folder" instead of recursively do the update.

Stefan

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