On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Cooke, Mark <mark.co...@siemens.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Geoff Hoffman [mailto:ghoff...@cardinalpath.com] > > Sent: 20 December 2011 15:59 > > To: Kuno Meyer > > Cc: users@subversion.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Create a new working copy by cloning a subtree > > of an existing working copy? > > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Kuno Meyer <kuno.me...@gmx.ch> wrote: > > > > > > With SVN 1.7, is there a way to create a new working > > copy by cloning a subtree > > of an existing working copy? > > > > For example: > > - Already checked out: > > wc1/ > > wc1/.svn > > wc1/src > > wc1/data > > wc1/data/bin1 > > > > - Desired: a new working copy of just the "data/" subtree: > > wc2/ > > wc2/.svn > > wc2/bin1 > > > > A reason of doing this could be to improve performance. > > > > Thanks, > > Kuno > > > > I believe if you simply copy the desired folder to a new > > location on your hard drive (nothing to do with SVN) you'll > > have what you want. > > > That used to work pre 1.7 (as an unintended side-effect of the older > working copy structure) but the new working copy structure (that moves all > .svn data into the root directory) stops that from working... That's now > like "export"ing the sub-folder. > > ~ mark c > Wow, good to know. Thanks Mark.
