Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 2:53 AM, Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger_at_gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > On 26/05/16 20:08, PERRY JENNINGS wrote:
> >>
> >> cannot use SVN because the code is for *non-object-oriented* applications
> >> ; hence a single file, not a project needs to be checked in and out of the
> >> repository. So my question is: Are you aware of a client that could be used
> >> to checkout and checkin a single file to the SVN repository and maintain the
> >> version number of the source code that is checked in? If not, do you know
> >> if SVN has the single file checkout and checkin feature?
> >
> >
> > Apache Subversion supports serializing changes to binary files will all
> > standard clients. It is called "locking", e.g. attaching svn:needs-lock
> > properties to the files, and acquiring locks to serialize access. Read about
> > it here:
> >
> > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.locking.html
>
> That does not sound like what Perry is looking for. He seems to want
> to only have a loal working file, not a full directory based working
> copy.
It did sound like non-text assets. Either way, besides the limitation of working copies always being a directory, all svn clients support checking out a selection of the tree, including down to a single file therein.
Andreas
Received on 2016-05-27 15:15:52 CEST