Re[2]: subversion

I asked the same thing less than a week ago... as did around 2290 (last time I checked) users. There are plenty of uses to it and I'm now hardlinking projects just because it is dumb to checkout a whole project into another one for a single file like header one. The only solution is probably - vote for it.

Wednesday, August 31, 2005, 3:15:18 PM, you wrote:

>> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=823
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=695

> Okay, I guess that's the best I'm going to get. It doesn't tell me why the
> checkout individual file functionality was not designed into subversion from
> day one however.

> For anyone wondering why I care about this it's because I like to keep scripts
> I use on servers under version control but do not want to for instance
> checkout the whole of a versioned etc directory into a server etc directory
> when all I want is one file .. I'd trash the rest! I could accomplish this
> using a checkout dir and symbolic links but that messes up my server just for svn.

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Received on Wed Aug 31 14:31:23 2005