Feature request: inhibiting checkout for tags and branches

I have an inherited repo structure that has many projects with their own
tags and branches folders.
Users check out the whole structure as there are common lib references etc,
but don't need to see the full contents
of tags or branches folders, which can be massive. I would like a property
svn:inhibit similar to svn:ignore set on the root folder
that limits the checkout depth to immediate (or empty) for a folder
anywhere in the tree matching the list.

By setting as a property, then a new checkout will inherit this property
and limit the checkout depth for the named folders as required.

Users can then checkout particular tag versions as normal if they require
past versions.

IMHO this will make the behavior of tags more like what the SVN manual says
is just a "user friendly name for a revision".
You wouldn't want to check out all revisions on the trunk, so why check out
all revisions for tags by default?

This would be a really cool improvement, as I see the problem has been
mentioned many times on this group.
Received on 2012-03-29 12:20:29 CEST