[snip]
>>>The steps I appear to have to take in svn to get the equivalent of this
>>>cvs line:
>>>
>>>cvs co common/software/utilities/foo/bar/include common/software/
>>>utilities/foo/bar/src
>>>
>>>are the following 7 svn checkout lines:
>>>
>>>svn co -N file:///tmp/svnrepos/trunk/common
>>>svn co -N file:///tmp/svnrepos/trunk/common/software common/software
>>>svn co -N file:///tmp/svnrepos/trunk/common/software/utilities \
>>> common/software/utilities
>>>svn co -N file:///tmp/svnrepos/trunk/common/software/utilities/foo \
>>> common/software/utilities/foo
>>>svn co -N file:///tmp/svnrepos/trunk/common/software/utilities/foo/ bar \
>>> common/software/utilities/foo/bar
>>>svn co -N file:///tmp/svnrepos/trunk/common/software/utilities/foo/
>>>bar/src \
>>> common/software/utilities/foo/bar/src
>>>svn co -N file:///tmp/svnrepos/trunk/common/software/utilities/foo/
>>>bar/include \
>>> common/software/utilities/foo/bar/include
>
>Sorry, no, wait, that's wrong. The first command should be a checkout; all
>subsequent commands should be updates. Otherwise you've got unrelated
>working copies nested within each other, which isn't the idea.
>
>svn co -N \
> file:///tmp/svnrepos/trunk/common
>
>svn up -N \
> common/software \
> common/software/utilities\
> common/software/utilities/foo \
> common/software/utilities/foo/bar
>
>svn up \
> common/software/utilities/foo/bar/src \
> common/software/utilities/foo/bar/include
>
>Note that with -N you still get all files in the various directories; it's
>only subdirectories that are omitted.
>
>Note also that -N is considered broken. Whether it's too broken to be of
>use to you, you'll have to decide on your own, just be aware that some
>things might be weird when you use this option.
>
>http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=695
>
>
I think I've found that this problem is already logged as an enhancement
request
in the subversion database:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=823
As you mentioned, the -N option is broken and this enhancement needs -N to
work. :(
Thanks again...
David
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