Re: Check out externals without using --depth infinity

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Mark Parker <godefroi_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm attempting to do a partial checkout of a repository path, and I'm having
> some difficulty getting externals to be included. It seems to me that
> externals are checked out if and only if the folder is checked out with
> --depth infinity (or updated with --set-depth infinity).

Yes, you are correct. This is a known issue:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3311 (externals
are not created unless depth=infinity).

> Is there any way to perform an --empty (or --files) checkout of a path and
> subsequently pull in the externals without having to pull in everything else
> as well?

I'm not aware of a way to do this, sorry. Unless the above issue is
addressed. Maybe you can workaround it by putting all the externals in
a specific subdirectory that you can then selectively update to
infinity?

-- 
Johan