Re: mimimal backup of working copies?

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:38:51AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to backup/move/copy checked out working copies
> such that you can skip all the parts that 'svn update' would
> reconstruct? I'm about to copy the home directories of a machine used
> mostly for checkout/build/test operations to a remote location and it
> occurred to me that most of what I'll be copying is unnecessary but I
> don't want to disrupt the directory structure or hooks to the
> repositories.

I'd rather not try that trick - you will spoil the "I did not update
that working copy since I need it at exactly this stage" use case - I'd
be upset as an developer if my files vanished because of some clever
admin. (And I'm admin as well, so I understand your desire not to copy
redundant files.)

Tino.

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