Check out externals without using --depth infinity

[Mark Parker <go...@gmail.com>]

I'm attempting to do a partial checkout of a repository path, and I'm 
having some difficulty getting externals to be included. It seems to me 
that externals are checked out if and only if the folder is checked out 
with --depth infinity (or updated with --set-depth infinity).

Is there any way to perform an --empty (or --files) checkout of a path 
and subsequently pull in the externals without having to pull in 
everything else as well?

Re: Check out externals without using --depth infinity

[Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Mark Parker <go...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm attempting to do a partial checkout of a repository path, and I'm having
> some difficulty getting externals to be included. It seems to me that
> externals are checked out if and only if the folder is checked out with
> --depth infinity (or updated with --set-depth infinity).

Yes, you are correct. This is a known issue:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3311 (externals
are not created unless depth=infinity).

> Is there any way to perform an --empty (or --files) checkout of a path and
> subsequently pull in the externals without having to pull in everything else
> as well?

I'm not aware of a way to do this, sorry. Unless the above issue is
addressed. Maybe you can workaround it by putting all the externals in
a specific subdirectory that you can then selectively update to
infinity?

-- 
Johan