Re: Checking out individual files

Duncan Murdoch wrote:

>> (apparently) can't check out individual files within a directory.
>>
>> I'm told that this was a design decision made by the Subversion
>> architects.
>>
>> My question was ... What was the reasoning behind this decision?
>>
>> If you can check out a subdirectory within a repository without having
>> to check out the whole repository, why not also then be able to check
>> out an individual file within a subdirectory?
>
> Because the .svn subdirectory is part of the subdirectory you check out,
> allowing checkouts to be moved around without losing their metadata. If
> you checked out a file, where would the metadata go?
>

Cvs wants to create a new directory for the initial checkout
and put a CVS directory in it for metadata too, but it still
lets you specify that only a single file is checked out into
that directory if that is what you want - even if the repository
directory contains more files.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@gmail.com
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