Switch to empty-dir [was: FAQ: svn advocacy / advice]

[Julian Foad <ju...@btopenworld.com>]

Malcolm Rowe wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:06:46PM +0000, Molle Bestefich wrote:
> 
>>(Odd repository.  What's '/empty-dir' ?)
> 
> A kludge to work around our broken handling of incomplete working copies
> (as seen, for example, in non-recursive checkouts).
> 
> The user switches the directories in their wc that they're not interested
> in to the empty-dir directory.  This effectively ignores them (and it's
> 'sticky'), but doesn't require the user to carry around a bunch of local
> 'svn:ignore' propsets that they're not planning to commit.

It may be a kludge, but it's one I hadn't thought of, and it sounds pretty cool 
to me.  We ought to have that as a FAQ answer.  Any volunteers to write it?

- Julian

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