Re: Commit files without a full working copy?

On 10/13/06, John Norton <jnorton@groceryworks.com> wrote:
>
> Under SVN 1.2 I could add files without having to check out a full
> working copy.
> After an initial checkout, I would delete all files except the top level
> .svn directory.
> Then using "svn add d:\work\* --force; svn ci -m msg " would add in and
> commit my new files.
>
> This allowed me to check in files without having to have every single file
> in the repository on my local workstation.
>

I had never had every single file in my repo in my working copy. I only have
the files in the directories in which I'm interested. Sometimes recursively,
sometimes not. See checkout's -N flag.

Perhaps I was exploiting a bug, but does anyone have a suggestion as to how
> to accomplish this? I have 5 branches in 2 repos to check into, and don't
> want to maintain 5 working copies.
>

Your use case isn't clear to me. Are your changes (adds, modifications,
deletes) identical across all 5? If not, what is your objection to having 5
working copies?
Received on Sat Oct 14 14:50:00 2006