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Re: checking out a branch - is similarly named target folder created automatically?

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-04-27 07:23:13 CEST

On 4/26/07, Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > If you right-click on a folder for checkout, you then enter an URL, TSVN
> > tries to 'guess' the foldername for the checkout from the URL (at least
> > in the nightly builds).
>
> I don't think so. I just installed last nights and tried it.
> 1. Create C:\temp\doc
> 2. Right click and SVN checkout
> 3. Browse to http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn/trunk/doc/source/dtd/docbook41
> in repobrowser.
> 4. Checkout path remains unchanged at C:\temp\doc. I had hoped that it
> would auto-complete to C:\temp\doc\source\dtd\docbook41
>
> Note that I have my default checkout path and URL set to something else.

I think I have to check what exactly happens if default checkout
-paths and -urls are set. If they're not set, the checkout path is
adjusted correctly.

> BUT. I'm not sure how this should interact with sparse directories.
> Should we create a sparse working copy, with just the request tree
> populated, or should we create an unversioned tree with just the
> requested sub-tree versioned at the bottom?

I don't understand what you mean here. There's a combobox in the
checkout dialog where you can chose how to checkout.

Stefan

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Received on Fri Apr 27 07:23:23 2007

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