Re: checking out single files not possible?

Ben and Larry:

Thanks to both of you for the tip to use 'svn cat' - my initial testing
shows that works fine for what I'm trying to do.

Thanks again for the help!

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 14:46, Darren Blaser wrote:
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>>Can someone help me out with the correct syntax or is subversion just
>>not able to check out single files?
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>Subversion cannot "checkout" single files. That is, you can't make a
>file appear all alone in a directory and be under version control. A
>working copy must be a directory.
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>But that said, you certainly *fetch* a single file (or any older version
>or branch/tag of it) by using 'svn cat URL'.
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Received on Mon May 17 22:20:59 2004