Re: Please tell me I'm wrong!

On Aug 31, 2006, at 10:18 AM, <Chris.Fouts@qimonda.com> wrote:

> svn co svn+ssh://repos/trunk/file
>
> svn: URL 'svn+ssh://repos/trunk/file' refers to a file, not a
> directory
>
> One can NOT check out a single file in Subversion?

You can't check out a single file, because Subversion needs to check
out working copies with directory-level granularity in order to have
a place to store the metadata necessary for keeping track of the
files in the working copy (the .svn directory).

That said, you can get a single file out of Subversion, just not as a
working copy (i.e. you won't be able to make changes and commit them
back). To do that, all you need to do is run "svn cat".

-Bill

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Received on Thu Aug 31 17:48:56 2006