On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 13:10, Phil Pinkerton <pcpinker...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/1/2011 11:38 AM, joe.floe...@sungard.com wrote: >> >> -----Original Message----- >> 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.
In what ways could svn:externals be improved to do what you need? My memories of "sharing" in VSS are all nightmares.