On Dec 20, 2011, at 06:08, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> I'm writing a script (also used as a cron job on the server) that
> should work independent of whether or not a checkout has already been
> done or not. I would like to do "repeated sparse checkout" as
> explained below, but I'm not sure how to do it properly. (I have some
> kind of a workaround for this problem, but I would like to know if
> there is a more elegant solution to this.)
>
> Repository has the following structure:
> - project/trunk (I would like to have it checked out)
> - project/branches/xxx (I don't want them)
> - project/tags/xxx (I would only like to have the latest one, but it
> doesn't bother me too much if I don't delete older ones)
>
> The first time I can do the following:
> latest=`svn list $URL/tags | grep beta | tail -1 | tr -d '/'`
> svn co --depth=empty $URL
> svn up project/trunk
> svn up --set-depth empty project/tags # temporary workaround for a
> bug in svn
> svn up project/tags/$latest
>
> I could use "svn up" from that moment on, but since I would like the
> script to work even if nothing has been checked out yet, I would like
> to keep "svn co" in the script.
>
> The problem is that "svn co --depth=empty $URL" will delete all the
> contents next time when I call it.
You should only be calling "svn co" once per working copy. Once you have a working copy, you should "svn up" it.
> Is there any way to prevent
> deleting existing contents within the scope of command line arguments?
> A workaround is to use something like
> if [ ! -d "project" ]; then
> svn co --depth=empty $URL
> fi
> but I would be really happy if there was some command like:
>
> "please checkout $URL, but no need to fetch any files yet, in
> particular don't fetch 'branches'; on the other hand please don't
> delete 'trunk' and 'tags' if already present"
I don't think that exists as a built-in command as such. But probably playing with the depth settings you can get what you want. I am not very familiar with these settings however so I cannot advise.
Received on 2011-12-21 13:07:45 CET