Concerning "svn update --set-depth infinity" t
Geoffrey Plitt wrote on 9 Jul 2009, 1:53, at least in part:
> Let's say I have a large WC (5 GB of contents), with root folder
> "Parent", that contains nothing except 1 folder, "Child" with 5GB of
> contents.
>
> While moving to a new laptop and doing backups, Parent and Child got
> separated (and Parent was deleted), but I still have the important
> part-- Child. Should be easy to restore the structure, without doing a
> full checkout (which will take several hours)....
>
> 1) mkdir Parent # not a working copy yet.
> 2) cd Parent
> 3) svn co --depth Empty $REPO_URL .
Would not --depth immediate do the trick?
JH
> ? Child
> 4) mv /backup/Child .
> 5) svn update --set-depth infinity .
> svn: Failed to add directory 'Child': a versioned directory of the
> same name already exists
>
> I want the system to just modify the administrative-folders to have
> normal depth. I don't really want to update and redownload everything.
> Is there an easy way to do this?
>
> Thanks--
> -g
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