Re: [rfc]Checkout without the .svn Directories

On 2004-12-03 10:17:56 +0000, Anthony Metcalf wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:06:38 +0100
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent+svn@vinc17.org> wrote:
>
> > If you have only one .svn directory, you can't do a svn up. What
> > you need is probably something like rsync or unison.
>
> But I don't have a set-up without the .svns anywhere at all at the
> moment!
>
> Obviously svn up would have to be changed for what I want to work.
> Would it be a very big change?

This is impossible. To be able to do an update (in the sense of
revision control systems), svn must know on which version the
file is based (you need this information for each file: either
a revision or information saying that the file is unversioned),
and possibly information related to some properties.

> The whole tree is kept at the same revision. All the time.

The problem is: What if an update has partially failed, so that
some files have already been updated, but not others?

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