Checking out a single file with 0.36 ...

[Ron Bieber <ro...@bieberlabs.com>]

This is the first time I've tried this.   I want to edit a single file
in the repository.   Rather than check out the full directory that the
file is in, I want to pull down the file, edit it, and commit it.   So,
I type the following command:

~/temp> svn co
http://subversion.bieberlabs.org/svn/main/trunk/deploy/deploy.c .

I get the following error:

svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/main/!svn/vcc/default'
svn:
Attempted to create entry in non-directory parent


Leaving off the final '.' argument in the checkout command actually
creates a directory called deploy.c rather than pulling the file from
the repository into the current directory.

Is this expected behavior?

Thanks,

-- Ron




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Re: Checking out a single file with 0.36 ...

[Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net>]

On Jan 18, 2004, at 8:01 AM, Ron Bieber wrote:

> This is the first time I've tried this.   I want to edit a single file
> in the repository.   Rather than check out the full directory that the
> file is in, I want to pull down the file, edit it, and commit it.   So,
> I type the following command:
>
> ~/temp> svn co
> http://subversion.bieberlabs.org/svn/main/trunk/deploy/deploy.c .
>
> I get the following error:
>
> svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/main/!svn/vcc/default'
> svn:
> Attempted to create entry in non-directory parent
>
>
> Leaving off the final '.' argument in the checkout command actually
> creates a directory called deploy.c rather than pulling the file from
> the repository into the current directory.
>
> Is this expected behavior?

You can't check out a single file, the smallest part of a repository 
you can check out is a directory.  This is pretty much intrinsic to 
much of Subversion's design at the moment, and is the way things are 
'supposed' to work.  Of course it would be nice if it didn't create 
that directory when you leave off the ., and it would be nice if the 
error message was less cryptic.

Patches to fix both issues are more than welcome.

-garrett


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