Julian Foad <julianf...@apache.org> writes: > I haven't looked further into this, but what I think is the core of > the problem is there's no way to generate a WC directory with its > depth set to 'infinity' but sparse inside, without checking out the > whole tree.
It might be difficult to do automatically, but there is a trick you can use if a suitable file is available. Suppose you want all of ^/subversion but with ^/subversion/trunk ^/subversion/branches ^/subversion/tags empty, then: svn co --depth empty http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion wc svn up --depth empty wc/trunk wc/branches wc/tags svn sw --ignore-ancestry ^/subversion/README wc/trunk svn sw --ignore-ancestry ^/subversion/README wc/branches svn sw --ignore-ancestry ^/subversion/README wc/tags svn up --set-depth infinity wc svn sw --ignore-ancestry --set-depth empty ^/subversion/trunk wc/trunk svn sw --ignore-ancestry --set-depth empty ^/subversion/branches wc/branches svn sw --ignore-ancestry --set-depth empty ^/subversion/tags wc/tags The file that allows this trick doesn't need to be in ^/subversion, using ^/subversion/trunk/subversion/include/svn_version.h would work just as well. This isn't a new idea -- it is based on a trick that was used in the days before the clients supported sparse working copies, see: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SvnSetup#Optimize_disk_usage -- Philip
