Re: Res: How to checkout only the tree structure of a repository

You can use

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/
svn_export_empty_files.py

which I wrote for repositories what when checked out would be several
Gbytes in size. This let's people use find to see the directory
structure. It can also be used to keep a empty "checkout" directory
structure up to date with cron.

Regards,
Blair

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On Nov 4, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Alex Lopes Pereira wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt,
> A very common situation in my company is:
> I - We want all people to contribute to store important  
> informations on the repository;
> II - We have some rules to classificate all the files that might be  
> stored. In such a way, that everybody following those rules would  
> put that file in the same folder.
> III - The repository has a big tree structure, more than 10 levels.
>
> A - People seek over the tree structure to find the correct place  
> to put a file and even create another sub-folder. It would be a  
> nice feature that they could seek over the tree structure of a  
> working copy without wainting 30 minutes to checkout all the files.
> B - People don't know if the file is shared in the repository, but  
> with those rules (II) they know the exactly sub-folder it should  
> be. Then, if we have a tree structure an efficient and straight way  
> to get that file is to checkout all the contents of that sub-folder.
>
> There are some other situations that I could post here.
> As much as I understood until now there is no way to checkout a  
> working copy containing only the tree structre. Then, a quite  
> similar solution would also help me: Checkout only the smallest  
> file of every folder in the tree structure. Is it possible??
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> ----- Mensagem original ----
> De: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2006d@ryandesign.com>
> Para: Thomas Harold <tgh@tgharold.com>
> Cc: Subversion List <users@subversion.tigris.org>
> Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 25 de Outubro de 2006 0:35:20
> Assunto: Re: How to checkout only the tree structure of a repository
>
> On Oct 24, 2006, at 22:18, Thomas Harold wrote:
>
> > The issue arises in more complex repositories (ours has 500+
> > projects spread across a few dozen clients).  As an administrator,
> > the idea of creating 500+ projects is a nightmare.  Even having one
> > repository per client would be difficult (we add clients all the
> > time, I don't want to be the bottleneck for setting up new
> > repositories).
> >
> > As a user, trying to get a single file X/XYZ/123.txt quickly is
> > also a nightmare, especially if I have to create a new working copy
> > or create all of the folders between the root folder of the
> > repository and the folder that contains 123.txt.
>
> I don't understand why you want the intermediate folders. What's
> wrong with something like:
>
> svn co $REPO/X/XYZ X-XYZ
>
> ? I often did this for our repository which also had a client>project
> hierarchy.
>
>
>
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