Having you considering splitting your repository down and using
'Referenced Projects' (externals)? I appreciate that may not be possible
at this time.
Regards,
Lloyd.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Russ Dowe
> Sent: 02 February 2006 02:08
> To: users@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> Subject: Feature Request: Checkout Exclusions
>
> We have a large repository from which not everyone on the
> team needs all information. In particular, one or two
> directories (lower down in the directory tree) are huge and
> only a few people need those. It it desireable to keep those
> large directories in the same repository.
>
> How can I checkout (and update) from a repository so that
> these huge directories are excluded? I suppose I could run
> checkout several times with the "only check out the top
> folder" option selected, but it would be much more convenient
> if there was an 'exclude directory' option on the checkout
> menu where I can list the specific directories (implying
> their subdirectories too) to exclude from the checkout.
>
> For example, suppose the directory tree was
> project/trunk/dir1/other/sub1/sub2
> and also there was project/trunk/dir1/other1/big1/big2 and
> project/trunk/main/other2/sub1/sub2, I could checkout the
> whole project
> (project/trunk) yet exclude for example the big1 and big2
> sub-directories by entering "dir1/other1/big1" in an exculde
> list. (Ideally the exclude list could accept more than one
> exclude directory and ideally the software would verify that
> the directories exist in the repository prior to performing the
> checkout.)
>
> I know I can do this with a command line client with a script
> that only checks out the specific directories I want, but
> it'd be great to do this within TortoiseSVN as well wihtout
> having to manual run checkout many times.
>
> Is this feature possible to add? (Or is there a way
> currently available to do this in TortoiseSVN?)
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
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