Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 2:53 AM, Andreas Stieger <andreas.stie...@gmx.de> > wrote: > > > > On 26/05/16 20:08, PERRY JENNINGS wrote: > >> > >> cannot use SVN because the code is for *non-object-oriented* applications > >> ; hence a single file, not a project needs to be checked in and out of the > >> repository. So my question is: Are you aware of a client that could be > >> used > >> to checkout and checkin a single file to the SVN repository and maintain > >> the > >> version number of the source code that is checked in? If not, do you know > >> if SVN has the single file checkout and checkin feature? > > > > > > Apache Subversion supports serializing changes to binary files will all > > standard clients. It is called "locking", e.g. attaching svn:needs-lock > > properties to the files, and acquiring locks to serialize access. Read about > > it here: > > > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.locking.html > > That does not sound like what Perry is looking for. He seems to want > to only have a loal working file, not a full directory based working > copy.
It did sound like non-text assets. Either way, besides the limitation of working copies always being a directory, all svn clients support checking out a selection of the tree, including down to a single file therein. Andreas
