Re: Ignore not working as expected

On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Harvey, Edward wrote:
> Most likely it's my expectation that's at fault.
>
> Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:
>
> Suppose there's a repository with some tree structure.
> 20G /
> 18G /documentation
> 17G /documentation/library
> 1G /documentation/procedures
> 2G /src
>
> If I want to checkout / but I want to neglect /documentation/library, so
> I'm checking out a total of 3G instead of 20G
>
> I've tried everything I could think of, with the svn:ignore property,
> but never achieved the desired result. Any suggestions?

svn:ignore only influences commands like "svn status" but has no effect on
checkout or export. It's used e.g. to have SubVersion ignore automatically
generated files that you don't want to have under version control (and which
constantly clutter your "svn status" output), like *.o files.

What you want is something entirely different: you want a selective checkout.
This is currently not supported by SubVersion (but IIRC it might be included
in 1.5).

Bye,
        Marc

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