Re: file checkout order

On Tuesday 23 May 2006 22:26, Garrett Rooney wrote:

> > Hey, any idea on what determines the order that files come out of SVN
> > when doing a checkout?  Is it arbitrary?  Is there any way to adjust it?
>
> Currently, it is effectively random.  I believe the underlying order
> is governed by the ordering (or lack thereof) of an internal hash
> table.  There are various proposals to make it more predictable, which
> would probably mean lexographic ordering of the files, but I don't
> know how far any of them have gotten.  Other than actually changing
> the code there is no way to adjust it.

It would be helpful (at least for my applications) if one can instruct
Subversion to check in and check out files in chronological order, the order
of their last modification times. This would be one way (probably even the
best way) to manage make-generated files under subversion.

Just a thought...

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