Re: [rfc]Checkout without the .svn Directories

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 17:55:29 +0100
Vincent Lefevre <vincent+svn@vinc17.org> wrote:

> > svn uses atomic transactions I read.
>
> But they are not applied atomicly. AFAIK, you have to "svn cleanup"
> if something wrong happens (e.g. the network goes down at the wrong
> time).
>

Sounds reasonable enough.

> > At the end of the day, if an svn up failed on this type of three the
> > user could simply be advised to re-export it.
>
> But then, svn wouldn't know the base of each file without a .svn
> directory containing sufficient data.

I don't understand what you mean.

As you can see from another post in this thread, I have just been
informed of the current "svn export". What I want is that. With the
exceptions that the revision number that is exported is also stored, and
svn up is usable from within this tree.

This is for a quite specific circumstance, where a failed svn up would
be a little inconvienient, but not a real problem, i.e. you can always
re-export. And be back at where you would have been had you done a
compleate svn up.

Let me re-itterate, you would *never* make any changes in this tree.
That is it's reason to exist.