Stefan Podskubka <s.podskubka <at> hcs.at> writes: > On 20.12.2011 15:44, Kuno Meyer wrote: > > With SVN 1.7, is there a way to create a new working copy by cloning a > > subtree of an existing working copy? > > > One thing that comes to mind is cloning the existing working copy and > then performing an svn switch to the subtree. > > However, I don't know exactly how the switch is done and if it performs > better than a fresh checkout. I suppose it does, since all the files and > pristines are already in the existing checkout.
Thanks. Unfortunately, in my case, cloning the whole working copy (3.5 GB, 60k files) before stripping it down is similarly expensive to re-checking out the subdirectory (150 resp. 300 MB, 5 files each), despite of the somewhat limited network bandwidth.
