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Re: can't check out or export a single file

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-11-12 00:06:07 CET

On Nov 11, 2007 11:11 AM, Florian Frankenberger <florian@darkblue.de> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I just wanted to export a single file from my repository into a new
> folder "foldername" - but tortoise wouln't do that because of the
> following error:
>
> Error | Can't move 'C:\foo\foldername.tmp' to 'C:\foo\foldername':
> Access denied
>
> I'm working with admin rights in Windows XP Professional (German
> version). So it should not be a real security issue.
> Probably it was never meant as a feature to be able to check out/export
> single files. But if it was it should be fixed ;) - and else
> you shouldn't be able to select single files to check out/export.

Exporting a single file should work fine.

Checking out a single file is not possible, at least in the current
version of Subversion. Checkout requires that there be a directory
present to contain the WC metadata (the .svn directory).

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