> > 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
Oh, and you can of course check out the deleted path... just provide the peg revision... Svn co ^path/to/file@900 BOb
