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Linedata Limited Registered Office: 85 Gracechurch St., London, EC3V 0AA Registered in England and Wales No 3475006 VAT Reg No 710 3140 03 -----Original Message----- > From: Cooke, Mark [mailto:mark.co...@siemens.com] > Sent: 11 November 2010 08:50 > To: Giulio Troccoli; users@subversion.apache.org > Cc: San Martino > Subject: RE: Help or suggestions on porting to subversion > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Giulio Troccoli [mailto:giulio.trocc...@uk.linedata.com] > > Sent: 11 November 2010 08:45 > > Subject: RE: Help or suggestions on porting to subversion > > > > [CUT] > > > > > > > > > The thing we want is: > > > > - checkout single/scattered files from different directories > > > > - modify/commit them > > > > - group the files and tag this group (only the files in > > > > this group). > > > > > > > This is not AFAIK directly possible in subversion (or any other > > > similar tool that I have used). You could try using file > externals > > > in a new project directory but I have not used them and believe > > > there are "issues". > > > > According to the book it is possible (at least the last bit) > > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.tags.ht > ml#svn.bra > nchmerge.tags.mkcomplex > > > > Giulio > > > Ooo, thanks for that, learn a new thing every day. Just learned that myself yesterday, while looking for something else :-) > However, I still think that the first step will be at least > as "expensive" as doing the work to reorganise into a more > relevant project tree which would then simplify the remainder > of the steps. Without knowing why the OP is where they are > it is hard to understand why they have to stay there. There is a Python script to automate sparse checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/client-side/svn-viewspec.py Maybe that would help.
