Re: CheckOut or Export Excluding some Items

Shawn Matlock wrote:
> Henry Nisce wrote:
>
>> We use tortoise SVN to checkout/export files for deployment to our
>> production servers. Is there a way we can exclude certain files during
>> the process?
>
> I have several cases where I need a working copy of “everything but…”.
> To keep from having to remove files/directories each time the working
> copy is updated I remove their references from the .svn/entries file.
> (Be sure to make a copy of the original.)
>
> The first checkout still contains everything but at least I only have to
> remove them once.
>
> This may not be a “good” recommendation, but it works.

No, it is certainly not a good recommendation. Fooling a revision
control system is never a good plan. After all, you want it to be
reliable, don't you?

> It would be very useful to be able do this programmatically. If files
> can be ignored in the working copy on check in, why not files in the
> repository on checkout?

That sort of request would have to go to the subversion mailing list.
TortoiseSVN is just a client which uses the standard svn libraries.

Simon

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