As a general remark, let me state that there have been many situations
where I have needed to download a subversion directory, and the
project website will say, download this branch, use TortoiseSVN and
rather that explain what steps to take, they simply link to the
Tortoise documentation.
This happens often enough that I smell a trend. The problem is that
Tortoise documentation is less geared to daily use than to server
administration. As such, it is mostly useless for users like myself.
(An exception is the wordpress docs to using subversion, which seems
logical and straightforward http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion
).
For example, if you look at TortoiseSVN docs, the first step to take
seems to be the first step to take seems to be this topic
http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-checkout.html
, and this appears in Chapter 5. And even then, I'm not sure if
checking out is really the first step I'm supposed to take.
Here's a question that maybe you can answer: Does TortoiseSVN provide
a way to turn (albeit temporarily) the failure noise? I've always been
wondering on how to do this.
rj
On Apr 13, 7:48 am, idiotprogrammer <idiotprogram..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> So am I to understand that Tortoise SVN does not provide this
> capacity?
>
> Although my question may have to do with this epub project, I actually
> have the same question as it pertains to another sourceforge project.
> Maybe I should contact the people at sourceforge? The problem is that
> I cannot make sense of the ViewVC view provided.
>
> Maybe I'll look around for a mailing list that is able to answer more
> general subversion questions.
>
> rj
>
> On Apr 13, 6:39 am, Stefan Küng <tortoise..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > idiotprogrammer wrote:
> > > Hi, I'm a beginner to subversion although I use it for work. I've
> > > used subversion, but it's all been set up for me.
>
> > > What I want is to download a current branch of a software project. I
> > > want to download it read-only and occasionally be able to update.
>
> > > I want to download this branch:
> > >http://docbook.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/docbook/branches/xsl-epub/
>
> > > I'm not too clear on the branch/trunk part.
>
> > > I can download docbook project as a whole
> > > (I need to do thishttp://docbook.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/docbook/trunk
> > > )
>
> > > but I can't download the xsl-epub branch or at least understand the
> > > relationship between the xsl-epub branch and the docbook trunk. And in
> > > the main docbook trunk I don't see any directories for epub stuff (my
> > > interest), only generic content---although not the files in the root
> > > directory apparently.
>
> > > I know I'm not comprehending some basic concepts here.
>
> > > Using Tortoise SVN, I created a directory, checked out the main
> > > directory, but I don't see anything resembling files specific to xsl-
> > > epub http://docbook.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/docbook/branches/xsl-epub/e...
>
> > > So what do I do?
>
> > Ask on the correct mailing list: you have to ask the docbook developers
> > about what each branch is used for and if you even should use it and if
> > how you should use it.
>
> > Stefan
>
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