checkout part of a branch

[george young <gy...@itasoftware.com>]

[svn, version 1.3.2 (r19776), rh-fc3 linux]

I would like to checkout part of a (200000 file) branch so I can use 
svnmerge without lugging around our entire repository.  Svnmerge insists 
on a top-level working directory. 
I tried:
  svn co -N top
  svn co top/A top/A
  svn co top/B top/B,
but svnmerge says 'no copyfrom info available'.  Is there some other 
kludge that will get part of a branch checked out?

-- George

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Re: checkout part of a branch

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Jun 1, 2007, at 20:31, george young wrote:

> [svn, version 1.3.2 (r19776), rh-fc3 linux]
>
> I would like to checkout part of a (200000 file) branch so I can  
> use svnmerge without lugging around our entire repository.   
> Svnmerge insists on a top-level working directory. I tried:
>  svn co -N top
>  svn co top/A top/A
>  svn co top/B top/B,
> but svnmerge says 'no copyfrom info available'.  Is there some  
> other kludge that will get part of a branch checked out?

The correct way to construct that sparse working copy is:

svn co -N top
svn up top/A top/B

I don't know if that will make svnmerge work for you though.


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