On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 13:21, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 06:07:05AM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Dec 20, 2011, at 06:08, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>
> svn-viewspec.py might help: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/svn-viewspec.py
Thank you very much for pointing out this script. I think that it will
perfectly suit the need.
Mojca
Received on 2011-12-21 20:48:04 CET