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Re: Suggestion: Import Checkboxes

From: Ron Wilson <ronw.mrmx_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-10-02 19:10:33 CEST

Also, you can add the names of folders and extensions of files for
things you want to exclude by default into your TSVN configuration. We
typically exclude folders with the names "Obj", "Lst", "Debug" and the
like. Also, files with "*.obj", "*.abs", "*.hex" and the like.

On 10/1/07, Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 01/10/2007, Troy Simpson <troy@ebswift.com> wrote:
> > Sorry if this has already been brought up, but a google search only returned
> > a whole lot of static. I want to make a suggestion to make Import similar
> > to Add where you have checkboxes to remove folders from the import list.
> >
> > Currently if you want to make a new repository and import a large project
> > the best way is to first import the structure, then checkout the trunk, copy
> > all your source files into the trunk working copy, then from the trunk
> > perform an add (at this point you can un-tick all the binary folders), then
> > do a commit. That makes for an extra commit during the setup process and
> > seems a bit more laborious. Just performing a blind import fills your
> > repository with all kinds of nasty binaries if you haven't cleaned up your
> > code tree first.
> >
> > If you had the tick boxes on import, you could setup your tags, branches,
> > trunk structure in a temporary folder, move all your source files into the
> > trunk, perform the import, and simply untick all the binaries. That's a
> > single import to setup a whole repository for sourcecode without performing
> > a pre-import cleanup.
> >
> > New users will have a better overall impression up front IMHO - as it is now
> > I find it hard to convert new coders to habitually use subversion with
> > tortoisesvn, but I am slowly succeeding - my list of converts is growing
> > fast.
>
> AFAIK the command line client doesn't have an option to import a list
> of targets either. That functionality is just not supported in the
> subversion API. There is currently a workaround:
>
> http://tortoisesvn.net/node/248
>
> and there is an issue in our tracker to make a better interface,
> though it may not make it into 1.5.0
>
> http://issues.tortoisesvn.net/index.php?do=details&task_id=373
>
> Simon
>
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