> Hi there, > > my situation is as follows: > there's a large svn repository > svn+ssh://someserver/reps/maindir/ > I only work with the subdirectory > svn+ssh://someserver/reps/maindir/old_dir/foobar/what_I_work_with > > such that I used to check it out with > svn co svn+ssh://someserver/reps/maindir/old_dir/foobar/what_I_work_with > > what_I_work_with got moved by the maintainers of the main repository in > revision r123456 to > > svn+ssh://someserver/reps/maindir/new_dir/foobar/what_I_work_with > > now I can check it out with > > svn co svn+ssh://someserver/reps/maindir/new_dir/foobar/what_I_work_with > > in newlocation, commands like "svn log", "svn blame", ... still work, I see > commit messages from before r123456 and changes from r900 are correctly > reported by svn blame. > > what does not work is > > cd what_I_work_with > svn up -r900 > > since maindir/new_dir/foobar/what_I_work_with doesn't exist in r900. > > Also the alternate approach checking out what_I_work_with doesn't work since > the directory doesn't exist in the trunk > > svn co svn+ssh://someserver/reps/maindir/old_dir/foobar/what_I_work_with > > neither did switching work: > > cd what_I_work_with > svn switch ..../old_dir/... > > Also, I'm hesitant to check out svn+ssh://someserver/reps/maindir due to the > large overhead of stuff in there which I don't need (in fact I found it a > strong > part of svn that subdirectories of a repository are repositories themselves). > > > > Is there any way to check out or update to revision r900?
I don't think so. Since the canonical "name" of an item in the repository is a combination of the full path and the rev number (^maindir/new_dir/foobar/what_I_work_with@123456) you can't update a path to a revision in which that path didn't exist. You would have to check out rev900 from the original path. You could try: Svn co -r 900 ^maindir/new_dir/foobar/what_I_work_with@123456 But, I'm not sure if that will work. BOb
