Re: Regarding shallow checkouts

Well, my scenario is simple: I have a repository that contains a folder branches and in that folder is a branch for every version that is deployed. Deployment is done every second week, since 2007. So that's a lot of branches. I use shallow checkout to check out the branches folder and all of its immediate children which gives me a list of existing branches. If I need to work on one of those, I can pull it easily with svn up --set-depth=infinity.

That's about all.

felix

On Feb 22, 2010, at 11:28 AM, An Me wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am learning svn and am a new-bie.The following is my doubt.
>
> What is the significance of shallow checkouts.?.
> Why would somebody want to checkout a project partially.?
> If possible please explain with a scenario/real life example.
>
> Regards,
> An

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