Re: Partial checkouts on a huge project

mike nicholaides wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I hope y'all can help me out. I've been googling and reading the
> archives of this list for about a week now.
>
> I have a huge intranet project that I want to put under version
> control. The problem I've run into is that the whole project is 1.3
> GB, which means that checking out the whole project, even on the same
> machine as the repository, takes forever.

You have my sympathies. I've seen way, way, way too many programmers write
their tools as "let's lump everything together and dependent on the same
source tree". XFree86 was a prime example fo this.

You need to look at this webpage:

    http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.externals

Then you can create a workig branch directory, such as "build-hammer-1", and
stuff the necessary external downloads into it.

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Received on Fri Apr 28 20:38:03 2006