On 7/1/2011 11:38 AM, joe.floe...@sungard.com wrote:
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From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 10:22 AM
To: Andy Levy; users@subversion.apache.org
Subject: Re: SVN 1.7 - check out single file?
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 17:05, Stefan Sperling<s...@elego.de> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:49:58PM -0400, Andy Levy wrote:
With the new way WCs are managed, will it be possible to check out a
single file, instead of having to do multiple steps with sparse
directories just to get a single file in a directory? Looking at the
release notes and CHANGES file, I think the answer is "no", but I
need
someone more knowledgeable to back me up here before I take the
answer
back to the person who asked me. Thanks.
No, you still need to checkout a directory. But it sounds like the
new --parents option of svn update might help you a bit:
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#update-parents
We'll have to see how Tortoise implements this, as that's what most
folks here are using.
It's an edge case for us, it's only 2 or 3 people who are affected by
the issue of too many items to check out just to update a single file.
There may be more people who would like this feature than you think.
Actually this ability is just what we are looking for. We are migrating
off of SCCS and RCS to SVN. We organize our 9000 source files into two
directories. We were disappointed that svn did not allow single file
checkout. 90% of our work is maintenance involving 'work tickets' that
affect only one or two files. So right now, in test, our checkouts run
4-10 minutes (depending on other server tasks and network traffic).
This, as an optional ability, would be great for us.
On the same note I have been involved with migrating some 200 VSS
databases to Subversion, one of the big issues is the ability to
checkout a single file, we default to using export in those cases as
many checkouts , updates and commits are done via scripts.
The other issue with regards to functionality of Subversion vs VSS is
that many times VSS gets files from multiple locations in the database
and puts them in the working directory. We find it difficult if not
impossible to do the same with Subversion.
