Hi All,
Thank you all for the response.
Regards,
An
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Ryan Schmidt <
subversion-2010a_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 22, 2010, at 22:48, An Me wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> >
> >> You need to change only one file. You co empty top-level directory, then
> >> update only that file. And edit and commit it.
> >
> > But usually if we are working on java project,to edit some files mean we
> need to co the whole project and not that single file alone for editing as
> we need to check whether the whole project is working fine by finally
> compiling and running the same.So where exactly is the shallow co useful?
>
> Maybe it is not useful for you. It might not be applicable to all
> workflows. It can be very useful for example if you have a web site in
> Subversion and need to only fix a typo on a single page. Or if you are an
> artist working on a game and only need to check out the graphics you are
> currently editing, and don't need all the other graphics or sounds or game
> code.
>
>
> Personally, I use shallow checkouts for some types of changes in MacPorts.
> MacPorts is a package management system for Mac OS X written in Tcl. Each
> port is represented by a Tcl file that defines certain variables like the
> port name, version, category, and so on. Each port file lives in a directory
> with the name of the port, which lives in a directory with the name of the
> category. For example our php5 port lives in
> trunk/dports/lang/php5/Portfile. You can browse the tree here:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports
>
> Now suppose I want to change a port's category, as I did for php5 in r49690
> when I moved it to the lang category from the www category because it is in
> fact a language and not limited to web programming:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/changeset/49690
>
> How could I do this? I could do it with URLs:
>
> svn mv \
> http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/www/php5 \
> http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/lang \
> -m "move php5 from www to lang category"
>
> But the category is also listed in the port file itself. If I just move the
> port's directory to the new category's directory without also editing the
> port file, the port file will still say the port is in the www category
> while the port directory is in the lang category directory. That won't do. I
> need to edit the port file at the same time as I move its directory. I could
> check out the entire dports directory, but if I don't plan to use that
> directory for other purposes later, it would be wasteful to check out all
> 6000+ ports just for this small rearrangement. It's more efficient to check
> out sparsely. I might use:
>
> svn co -N http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports
> cd dports
> svn up -N www lang
> svn up www/php5
> svn mv www/php5 lang
> # now edit the categories definition in lang/php5/Portfile
> svn ci -m "move php5 from www to lang category"
>
> Yes, the syntax I show above is the old pre-Subversion 1.5 non-recursive
> checkout syntax instead of the new Subversion 1.5+ sparse checkout syntax,
> but only because I have not yet bothered to learn the latter.
>
>
>
Received on 2010-02-23 07:10:45 CET