Re: don't update branches in local copy

On May 5, 2006, at 03:28, Russ Tedrake wrote:

> Lots of people check out the entire repository from the root. But
> most people do not need a local copy of every branch of every
> project. Is there a clever way to have people download just the
> trunks and not the branches in their local copy of the
> repositories. Like checking out a repository without checking out
> all of it's subdirs?

It is a user error to check out the entire repository root. Educate
users to check out either the trunk or the specific branch they
desire. Conceivably you could even install access controls to prevent
people from checking out a repository root and print a helpful error
message, if preemptive user education proves difficult.

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Received on Fri May 5 15:11:55 2006