Re: Feature Request: Checkout Exclusions

Russ Dowe wrote:

> We do use externals in our current repository, but that makes it a little more
> complicated to tag/branch (since we have to change the external to point to a
> tag or branch)....unless we're doing that wrong somehow. SO, I was looking for
> a 'better' solution to just skip directories in a repository that we're not
> interested in. I thought an 'exclude directory' during a checkout would
> be 'easiest', or maybe even some new form of snv:ignore that does more than
> just ignore status. A lot of users are not very svn savvy, so whatever's
> simplest has the best chance of being used correctly.

Unless that feature is implemented in the Subversion library, TSVN can't
really help you there. Even if we would offer an option to just check
out certain directories, it wouldn't really help. Because on the next
update, all directories would get added again.
So this really has to be done in the Subversion library and made
'sticky', i.e. all commands would have to respect the excluded paths and
not fetch them again (like 'update').

So, to make a long story short: you have to ask on the Subversion
mailing list for such a feature.

Stefan

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