It was suggested on users@ a day ago and the thread concluded with filing the request in the tracker, plus a pointer by stsp to a tool that helps do that today.
San Martino wrote on Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:47:12 +0100: > Hello, > > first of all, thanks for the good job. > > We would like to convert our BIG repository to subversion. > Actually the repository is organized in a way that a single directory > might contain thousands of files and many Gb of data. > Having to check-out one directory for just picking one file is not a > scalable solution for our production environment. > We would like to be able to checkout single files with the chance to > also checkout the directories included in the path to the single file. > For example, a check-out of /path/to/my/file.txt would also create > /path, /to and /my. > I know it's possible to obtain the same result with "checkout --depth > empty" options as many times as dirs and a final "update" of the > single file. > But it's boring to do this in every possible case. > > thanks.
