Our collection of products is grouped into a single folder under
.../src/trunk, as a wide and flat hierarchy. That is, trunk contains 43
folders. I want to check out only some of these and still have atomic
updates and commits. How?
For my project I only need 14 of these. Doing a commit or update takes a
very long time. One way I've found to shorten this is to check out only
the 14 folders I need. With TortoiseSVN on Microscruff Windows XP I can
update these easily with a group select and update. I can't commit them as
a multiple selection, so I have to resort to individual commits. That
thwarts the nice atomic commit the Subversion developers worked so hard at
putting in.
I've found I can edit the .svn/entries file and delete the folders I'm not
interested in. That seems to work beautifully. My work remains in trunk,
yet I don't have to deal with two thirds of the folders we have. Is
editing the "entries" file in this way going to get me in trouble?
Here's heading you off at the pass:
- No, we can't reorganize the folders. They are flat because of various
project interdependencies which don't lend themselves to easy hierarchical
organization.
- Yes, I've considered using a private branch. But merging is more
bookkeeping than I want to deal with.
\bob peterson
Memento, Inc.
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