Checking out files rather than directories

[Eric <sp...@scoot.netis.com>]

Is this forum a suitable place to discuss things like some of the GUIs that 
are available to use with Subversion?

I thought that Subversion was supposed to support checking out/in of 
individual files in addition to whole directories, but SmartSVN doesn't 
seem to want to do that, i.e. if I try to check out a file it tells me I 
have to check out the whole directory.

Did I misunderstand that capability of Subversion or is that a limitation 
of SmartSVN?

Versions:

SmartSVN version 2.0.7, Windows 2000 Pro SP1 (old non-updated Windows box I 
use for testing)

Subversion version 1.3.2, Fedora Core 5


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Re: Checking out files rather than directories

[marc gonzalez-carnicer <ca...@gmail.com>]

hi,


2006/9/21, Eric <sp...@scoot.netis.com>:
>

...

> Did I misunderstand that capability of Subversion or is that a limitation
> of SmartSVN?
>

by reading your email, i guess you misunderstand
the way subversion works. in svn you don't checkout
(exclusively) or checkin files, as you do in VSS, CVS,
SCCS. svn has a different way of seeing things that
helps overcome the limitations of those older VCSs.

i'd suggest you to read the subversion book, more
precisely, the section "versioning models" in chapter
2.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn-book.html#svn.basic.vsn-models

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RE: Re: Checking out files rather than directories

[Ch...@qimonda.com]

> svn co <myURL>/Imakefile file/Imakefile
svn: URL '<myURL>/Imakefile' refers to a file, not a directory

IMHO, this is another Subversion misfortune!


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Talden [mailto:talden@gmail.com] 
>Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 6:31 PM
>To: users@subversion.tigris.org
>Subject: Re: Checking out files rather than directories
>
>You can get the contents of a file but it isn't 'checked out' 
>(and therefore modifiable).
>
>  svn cat svn://someserver/path/filename.txt >filename.txt
>
>If you want a 'working copy' you do, AFAIK, need to checkout a folder.
>
>--
>Talden
>
>
>On 9/21/06, Eric <sp...@scoot.netis.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is this forum a suitable place to discuss things like some 
>of the GUIs 
>> that are available to use with Subversion?
>>
>> I thought that Subversion was supposed to support checking out/in of 
>> individual files in addition to whole directories, but SmartSVN 
>> doesn't seem to want to do that, i.e. if I try to check out 
>a file it 
>> tells me I have to check out the whole directory.
>>
>> Did I misunderstand that capability of Subversion or is that a 
>> limitation of SmartSVN?
>>
>> Versions:
>>
>> SmartSVN version 2.0.7, Windows 2000 Pro SP1 (old 
>non-updated Windows 
>> box I use for testing)
>>
>> Subversion version 1.3.2, Fedora Core 5
>>
>>
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Re: Checking out files rather than directories

[Talden <ta...@gmail.com>]

You can get the contents of a file but it isn't 'checked out' (and
therefore modifiable).

  svn cat svn://someserver/path/filename.txt >filename.txt

If you want a 'working copy' you do, AFAIK, need to checkout a folder.

--
Talden


On 9/21/06, Eric <sp...@scoot.netis.com> wrote:
>
> Is this forum a suitable place to discuss things like some of the GUIs that
> are available to use with Subversion?
>
> I thought that Subversion was supposed to support checking out/in of
> individual files in addition to whole directories, but SmartSVN doesn't
> seem to want to do that, i.e. if I try to check out a file it tells me I
> have to check out the whole directory.
>
> Did I misunderstand that capability of Subversion or is that a limitation
> of SmartSVN?
>
> Versions:
>
> SmartSVN version 2.0.7, Windows 2000 Pro SP1 (old non-updated Windows box I
> use for testing)
>
> Subversion version 1.3.2, Fedora Core 5
>
>
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