Checking out parts of a repository

Is it possible to check out several parts of repository, but still handle
them as a single checkout, eg

top/dir1/...
top/dir2/...
top/dir3/...
top/dir4/...

Now, all of these are big, and I know my changes will only affect dirs 2 &
4,
but these changes are linked, so I do want to commit my changes as a
single commit.

I know I could descend into dir2 and pull out part of the repository, and
the same in dir4, but then at the 'top' level there would be no connection
between them.

So, can I be at the 'top' level, and just checkout dirs 2 & 4, and then
subsequently
commit changes in both dirs in one commit?

- Rob.
Received on 2008-08-13 16:18:40 CEST