Re: replacement to cvs release?

On Feb 28, 2006, at 11:18, Martin Steffen wrote:

> Release (-d) for me as (former) CVS-user means:
>
> I'm finished with this directory, I currently don't want to
> continue working on it, please remove it from my workspace
> and from my eyes.
>
>
> But it's not deleted or moved to another place, ``virtually'' it's
> still
> there in the repos, only that I (at client side) decided that I
> don't want
> to see it now.
>
> One good thing is: If I did \rm -rf, things would be removed from
> my eyes,
> as well, however, without warning. Release will warn me about
>
> - not checked-in files
> - not commited/up-to-date files

Subversion somewhat supports partial / non-recursive checkouts. This
functionality is currently rather broken, but it may work
sufficiently for your needs. You'll just have to try it and see.

svn checkout -N <url>

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

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Received on Tue Feb 28 14:11:12 2006