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RE: Feature request: Provide option to prevent updates if files/folders have hidden attribute turned on

From: Glenn Carr <GCarr_at_ConnectShip.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:24:24 -0600

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.levy_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:38 AM
> To: users_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Feature request: Provide option to prevent updates if
> files/folders have hidden attribute turned on
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:28, Glenn Carr
> <GCarr_at_connectship.com> wrote:
> > Would it make sense to have an option (which was turned off
> by default) to
> > allow updates to ignore (i.e., 'not update') hidden folders/files?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Glenn Carr [mailto:GCarr_at_ConnectShip.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:45 PM
> > To: users_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> > Subject: kludge request: how to update directory but ignore
> (not update)
> > some versioned files?
> >
> > Not asking for a feature, just asking for any way to
> exclude one or more
> > versioned files when updating an entire directory
> structure. Something as
> > simple as setting the files to read-only (which doesn't
> work). Anybody done
> > that?
>
> Such a feature would really need to be implemented at the SVN library
> level to be "done right" (and I'm not sure it's a common enough
> scenario to be included in the libraries).
>
> TSVN could parse the directory and only update specific files, but on
> large directories this could be time-consuming and additional server
> overhead, vs. just updating the directory itself.

Yup, you're right. Even if it were only available for directories in order to not be so time-consuming, it would be fine with me. Just wishing.

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