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

On 27/04/07, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I think the default checkout-paths and -urls should do not more than
that, ie. set the initial path when checking out a URL, or the initial
URL when checking out to a path. The auto-completion should work
independently IMHO.

> > 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.

Ah yes, I forgot about that one.

Simon

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