Re: Please tell me I'm wrong!

On 8/31/06, M. Rohrmoser <mr.news.002@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> No, you're not wrong. But you can get the content of the file via
>
> svn cat svn+ssh://repos/trunk/file

From the svn dev list: The subversion faq (
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html) recommends "svn export" for the
following reason according to the commit log. "recommend 'svn export'
instead of 'svn cat', for exporting a single file. This honors svn:executable,
and doesn't require any shell redirection syntax."
Received on Thu Aug 31 19:29:18 2006