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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Sachin Sawant <sa...@gmail.com> on 2008/03/27 08:49:51 UTC
checkout file
I tried with 1.5 alpha version but not able to checkout single file
with newly added sparse checkout feature.
you can checkout directory with no files in it but still after that
you can't checkout single file.
is there any other way to checkout single file? if not why subversion
doesn't allow to checkout single file?
-Sachin
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Re: checkout file
Posted by Sachin Sawant <sa...@gmail.com>.
Ryan,
you are right but with subversion 1.5 sparse directory feature you can
checkout directory without any files or sub-folders and then it should
allow you to checkout single file to a same checkout directory.
Please correct me if I am wrong but I don't understand why can't we
have this scenario supported in subversion.
Regards,
-Sachin
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt
<su...@ryandesign.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 27, 2008, at 03:49, Sachin Sawant wrote:
>
> > I tried with 1.5 alpha version but not able to checkout single file
> > with newly added sparse checkout feature.
> > you can checkout directory with no files in it but still after that
> > you can't checkout single file.
> > is there any other way to checkout single file? if not why subversion
> > doesn't allow to checkout single file?
>
> Subversion is about versioning collections of files, not individual
> files. It hasn't been possible to check out single files before.
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#single-file-checkout
>
> I don't know if 1.5 changes the situation at all.
>
> The reason this hasn't been possible is that Subversion needs a
> directory to put its .svn directory into, to store administrative
> information about the working copy.
>
>
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Re: checkout file
Posted by Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>.
On Mar 27, 2008, at 03:49, Sachin Sawant wrote:
> I tried with 1.5 alpha version but not able to checkout single file
> with newly added sparse checkout feature.
> you can checkout directory with no files in it but still after that
> you can't checkout single file.
> is there any other way to checkout single file? if not why subversion
> doesn't allow to checkout single file?
Subversion is about versioning collections of files, not individual
files. It hasn't been possible to check out single files before.
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#single-file-checkout
I don't know if 1.5 changes the situation at all.
The reason this hasn't been possible is that Subversion needs a
directory to put its .svn directory into, to store administrative
information about the working copy.
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