Yeah, a new svn co -N is exactly what I've been doing. And yes, I've
been bitten by doing the svn update without the -N flag and had to hit
Ctrl-C to stop it from checking a lot of stuff I don't need.
Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> Javier--
>
> I don't think you can clean up your working copy once it's all checked
> out, but if you can check out a working copy anew, try using the -N
> flag (no recursion). It will allow you to selectively check out the
> contents of various folders while still keeping the folders themselves
> versioned (so you can go to a higher-level directory and do a checkin
> on the directories you *did* check out all at once).
>
> As Steve pointed out, you can't only decide to check out certain files
> in a directory, but you can tell it to only check out certain
> directories.
>
> Be warned though -- if you do an svn up in a directory where you've
> previously checked specific things out using the -N flag, it will
> update *everything* unless you also specify the -N flag with updates.
> It becomes more maintainable to (easily) script this scenario than
> doing the various updates with -N by hand.
>
> --Jeff
>
>
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