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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Yavor Christov <Ya...@FINATEC.bg> on 2003/04/01 06:59:07 UTC

subversion issue 823 - http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=823

Hi,

I am posting this here following the advise of Mr Karl Fogel.

First of all, I would like to know if it is possible to vote for issue 823
in order to elevate its priority?

We, like one of the other respondents (see the URL in the subject, -------
Additional Comments From Garrett Rooney 2003-01-07 15:40 PST -------), can
have thousands of files in one directory and we would like, ideally, to be
able to check out any of them separately.

Second, we need to be able to copy and then checkout a directory with just
one file.

I have succeeded to make a copy of a single file in the subversion
repository using the command:

[13:43:04] user@host:~ $ svn copy
file:///path/to/SVN/Repositories/repo1/trunk/somedirectory/somefile.sh
file:///path/to/SVN/Repositories/repo1/my-file -m "my single file project."

And then failed when tried to check it out:

[13:47:46] user@host:~ $ svn co http://host:80/svn/repos/my-file
svn: Error string not specified yet
svn: URL does not identify a collection.
[13:47:50] user@host:~ $

While

[13:52:31] user@host:~ $ svn copy
file:///path/to/SVN/Repositories/repo1/trunk/somedirectory
file:///path/to/SVN/Repositories/repo1/release-0.1 -m "my release 0.1"

[13:59:50] user@host:~ $ svn co http://host:80/svn/repos/release-0.1
A  release-0.1/somedirectory
A  release-0.1/somedirectory/file1
A  release-0.1/somedirectory/subdirectory/file1
A  release-0.1/somedirectory/subdirectory/file2
...

works flawlessly, and which is even stranger I can point my browser to
http://host:80/svn/repos/my-file and I can actually see the file source
there. It looks like the copy do exists but there is no way to get it back
via checkout.

Hence, my second question is whether this copy problem is a separate bug
which should be posted anew into issues or it is just a consequence of the
present disability of subversion to check out a single file, which is
already opened as issue 823 and therefore it should be added underneath it?

We are using subversion version:

[14:09:31] user@host:~ $ svn --version
svn, version 0.18.0 (r4976)
   compiled Feb 20 2003, 01:05:25

Copyright (C) 2000-2003 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_dav : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV (DeltaV) protocol.
  - handles 'http' schema
  - handles 'https' schema
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
  - handles 'file' schema
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
  - handles 'svn' schema

[14:09:36] user@host:~ $

Regards,

Yavor Christov
FINATEC BULGARIA LTD.
tel.: (+359 2) 9695172
fax: (+359 2) 9695180
Numquam sapiens irascitur.


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Re: subversion issue 823 - http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=823

Posted by Karl Fogel <kf...@newton.ch.collab.net>.
"Yavor Christov" <Ya...@FINATEC.bg> writes:
> First of all, I would like to know if it is possible to vote for issue 823
> in order to elevate its priority?

Well, we're not really using a formal voting system for that, we just
watch people's posts and use our judgement.

> We, like one of the other respondents (see the URL in the subject, -------
> Additional Comments From Garrett Rooney 2003-01-07 15:40 PST -------), can
> have thousands of files in one directory and we would like, ideally, to be
> able to check out any of them separately.

That's probably going to be Post-1.0, as the issue says.  It's not
that it's _so_ hard to do, but it's one of hundreds of
non-showstoppers, and we have focus on the big stuff for 1.0.

> Second, we need to be able to copy and then checkout a directory with just
> one file.
> 
> I have succeeded to make a copy of a single file in the subversion
> repository using the command:
> 
> [13:43:04] user@host:~ $ svn copy
> file:///path/to/SVN/Repositories/repo1/trunk/somedirectory/somefile.sh
> file:///path/to/SVN/Repositories/repo1/my-file -m "my single file project."
> 
> And then failed when tried to check it out:
> 
> [13:47:46] user@host:~ $ svn co http://host:80/svn/repos/my-file
> svn: Error string not specified yet
> svn: URL does not identify a collection.
> [13:47:50] user@host:~ $

You copied a file from "/somedirectory" to "/", and then tried to
check out the file alone.  The fact that the checkout failed has
nothing to do with how many times the file has been copied, rather,
it's because checking out a single file doesn't work :-).

> While
> 
> [13:52:31] user@host:~ $ svn copy
> file:///path/to/SVN/Repositories/repo1/trunk/somedirectory
> file:///path/to/SVN/Repositories/repo1/release-0.1 -m "my release 0.1"
> 
> [13:59:50] user@host:~ $ svn co http://host:80/svn/repos/release-0.1
> A  release-0.1/somedirectory
> A  release-0.1/somedirectory/file1
> A  release-0.1/somedirectory/subdirectory/file1
> A  release-0.1/somedirectory/subdirectory/file2
> ...

Well, sure.  Checkouts of directories work fine.

-K

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