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Re: Feature request: inhibiting checkout for tags and branches

From: Konstantin Kolinko <knst.kolinko_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:05:57 +0400

2012/3/29 coolie <pcoulson_at_senscient.com>:
> 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.

mod_dontdothat ?

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.7.x/tools/server-side/mod_dontdothat/README

BTW, why are you sending your question to "subversion_users_at_googlegroups.com" ?

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Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko
Received on 2012-03-30 14:06:29 CEST

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