AW: Need to checkout a single file from SVN

nikhil gupta <mailto:ng_g20@hotmail.com> schrieb am Montag, 30. Juli 2007 09:22:

> Hi,
>
> I need to checkout a single file from SVN but I'm not able
> to. I'm using SVN 1.4.2. Searched the internet for this but
> found that I can not checkout a single file. This facility is
> not available at all...
>

As others have mentioned, this is currently not possible, however you can export a single file. The result won't be a working copy though and you will not be able to commit any changes.

> This seems to be a glaring miss if that is true. Do I have to
> checkout the whole folder/directory, even if I need a small document?
>

What may seem like a glaring miss is a deliberate design decision by the svn team. Among the reasons is the fact that svn needs some place to store its working copy informations and these reside in a hidden folder inside the working copy - that why the working copy needs to be at least one folder. The upcoming sparse directory support may help solving the issue...

> --Nikhil
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regards

felix

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