I had this problem last week, see the svn-ignore stuff on: <http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/1fa32f170aa749af>
Your client will still take ages to sync (I believe the list of 200,000 files still gets passed around), however. On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:45 AM, chrome <chromeorfire...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > I trid to get the chrome source code via the gclient tools. > Due to low-bandwidth, i did not want to sync the layout_tests > code and added the filter line > > "src/webkit/data/layout_tests": None, > > into the .gclient file. > > But it seems does not work, it still sync the layout_tests code > from the depot after issuing gclient sync command. > > the steps i synced code as following: > 1. issuing command : "gclient config http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src" > 2. modify the .gclient file as following: > > # An element of this array (a "solution") describes a repository > directory > # that will be checked out into your working copy. Each solution may > # optionally define additional dependencies (via its DEPS file) to be > # checked out alongside the solution's directory. A solution may also > # specify custom dependencies (via the "custom_deps" property) that > # override or augment the dependencies specified by the DEPS file. > # If a "safesync_url" is specified, it is assumed to reference the > location of > # a text file which contains nothing but the last known good SCM > revision to > # sync against. It is fetched if specified and used unless --head is > passed > solutions = [ > { "name" : "src", > "url" : "http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src", > "custom_deps" : { > "src/webkit/data/layout_tests": None, > # To use the trunk of a component instead of what's in DEPS: > #"component": "https://svnserver/component/trunk/", > # To exclude a component from your working copy: > #"data/really_large_component": None, > }, > "safesync_url": "" > } > ] > 3. issuing the command gclient sync. > > i am very puzzled of why, can any one help me out? > > Thanks > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---