Feature request: inhibit checkout of tags/branches

I have a legacy 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 they 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 for a folder anywhere in the tree that
matches the inhibit list.

By setting as a property, 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, but an update at the root will not checkout tags or branches
by default.

IMHO this will make the behavior of a tag 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 SVN groups.
Received on 2012-03-29 13:28:58 CEST