"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday_at_crashcourse.ca> writes:
> perusing the section on "sparse directories," and i can immediately
> see the value of depths empty, files and immediates, but when would i
> use "--depth infinity"? as i read it, that's the default depth for a
> checkout anyway, right?
>
> i *can* see where a depth of "infinity" would be useful, if you
> were resetting the current sticky depth, as in:
>
> $ svn update --set-depth infinity
>
> but that's using "--set-depth", not "--depth". is there an example
> command where you would actually use an option of "--depth infinity"?
> thanks.
In the future, there may be client-side configurations that pre-set
checkout depths; passing --depth=infinity would be a way to override
those pre-set configurations.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other reason why you'd say
--depth=infinity right now, though, no :-).
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Received on 2008-09-16 20:08:48 CEST